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Compiled by A. Ivl. Heston, 
1887 



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Showing location of Hotels, P 




MAP OF ATLANTIC CITY. 
Showing location of Hotels, Public Buildings, Railroad Depots, Prominent Cottages, Etc. 




Mansion House. 



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THE LARIjEgT HOTEL. OPEM ALL TjE M\. 



Greatly Enlarged, with all Modern Improvements. 



THIS Hotel is one block from all railroad stations, and is con- 
venient to all places of interest. It contains a large bil- 
liard room, a news counter, and the principal office of the Western 
Union Telegraph Company, with day and night service. Electric 
bells in every room and city gas. The Mansion is supplied with 
pure water from the mainland. 



CHAS. McGLADE, Proprietor. 



Hotel Brighton, 



ATLANTIC CITY, 



r^fo , 



OPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 

ENLARGED, REMODELED, REFURNISHED. 



With all Modern Improvements and Conveniences. 

Large Bed-rooms, many with Open Grate Fires. 

Suites of Rooms, with private Bath-rooms. 
Toilet Rooms on all floors. 

Hot and Cold Sea- Water Baths. 

Halls and Public Rooms, heated by steam. 
Hydraulic Elevator. 

Improved Plumbing and perfect Drainage throughout. 
Broad Piazzas, 730 feet in length. 
Location unsurpassed, unobstructed view of the ocean. 



F. W. HEMSLEY & SON 



United {States Y) otel, 



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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J 



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Leading Hotel. 

Superb Appointments. 

Hydraulic Elevator. 



5^A«X^fi^5K9^ 



Excellent Cuisine. 

Electric Bells. 

Fire Escape, etc., etc. 

{J. l e BROWN, Proprietor. 

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SEASIDE HOUSE. 

Enlarged and Improved. 

This favorite house has been moved from its former site to the 

Ocean End of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

An entire new wing has been built, the building placed upon a solid brick founda- 
tion, remodeled and refurnished throughout. It is open permanentJy and has accom- 
modations for two hundred guests. The building is heated throughout by steam, has 
an Otis hydraulic elevator, electric bells, fire and burglar alarms, open-grate fires in 
many of the rooms, besides hot and cold sea-water baths, and water-closets on every floor. 

The location of the Seaside is one of the best in Atlantic City, being in full view 
of the ocean ; easy of access from the depots, and convenient to all the churches, Post- 
Office, etc. It is well supplied with pure water; has good drainage, fine, airy halls, large 
bed-rooms, and over five hundred feet of porches. 

The table will continue to be a leading feature of the Seaside. Special arrange- 
ments will be made for board by the week or entire season, and rooms may be secured 
by mail or telegraph. 

CHARLES EVANS, Proprietor. 



g>EaSIt)E * OCESIN * pSRLOR, 

On the Beach, just ab. Pennsylvania Avenue. 

YT7 HIS is one of the most important and most attractive features of Atlantic 
\Jj" City. It is luxuriously furnished, and combines, besides the spacious 
sun parlor and verandas, a parlor and reception-room, library and 
smoking-rooms. The parlor overlooks the ocean, and here the invalid or 
pleasure-seeker may enjoy, without exposure to the weather, the invigorating 
chemical rays of the sun, inhale the healthful saline breeze, and view the 
breakers as they roll in upon the beach a few feet distant. The view from 
the parlor or veranda on the second floor is very enticing to those who 
enjoy the grandeur of the ocean. 

Connected with the building are one hundred private bathing apartments 
for surf bathers, and adjoining are the hot sea-water baths, with ample ac- 
commodations for those who enjoy these invigorating baths. 

The Seaside Ocean Parlor is in charge of a polite attendant, and the 
regulations are such as to make it at all times a desirable place for ladies 
and families. 

PROPRIETOR. 



>. T^e Dennis, 

At the Sea End of Michigan Ave. 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR. 



THIS House has been enlarged and entirely refurnished, and 
now has accommodations for 200 guests. It has hot and cold 
sea-water baths, hydraulic elevator, electric bells, is lighted 
throughout with gas and has every feature of a first-class hotel. 
A majority of the rooms have an uninterrupted ocean view, and 
a sight of the breakers may be enjoyed at all hours from the win- 
dows and spacious verandas of the Hotel. The heating facilities 
for winter and spring are first-class, and the accommodations 
excellent. 

BORTON & MARSHALL, Prop'rs. 




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THE "TRAYMORE," 

Ocean End of Illinois Avenue. 

Replete with all Modern Conveniences, including Passenger Elevator, Open Grate Fires, 
Electric Bells, Hot and Cold Sea- Water Baths, Billiard Room, Sun Parlor, etc. 
Sanitary and Drainage Arrangements Altered and made Perfect, 
w. w. GREEN, 

tEJSTfc w - w - GREEN & CO. 

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-feHADDON HALLs- 

Extreme 0?ean End of J^orth Garolina fine. 

OPEN WINTER AND SUMMER. 

This favorite hotel, formerly known as the " Haddon House," 
has been moved to the extreme sea-end of North Carolina Ave., 
enlarged to nearly twice its former size, and a solid brick basement 
placed under the entire building. It has been newly papered, 
painted, and furnished, and has an Otis Hydraulic Elevator, open 
grate fires, fire and burglar alarms, electric bells, hot and cold sea- 
water baths, and other first-class appointments. Spacious verandas 
and sun parlors surround the building, from which may be had an 
unsurpassed view of the ocean. Most of the rooms also have a 
delightful ocean outlook. 

EDWIN LIPPINCOTT, Proprietor. 

XBRADY HOUSE* 

Arkansas Ave., bet. Atlantic and Pacific Aves. 



A large and handsome Boarding House, in the new and 
improving quarter. 



THIS is a well-appointed House for Spring and Summer Guests, being ele- 
gantly furnished and having excellent sanitary arrangements. Water, for 
purity, unexcelled. 
Attached to the House are newly laid out sanitarium grounds, affording light 
and healthful exercise for invalids. The location of this House has become 
central and especially desirable, being only two minutes' walk from the Phila- 
delphia and Atlantic City Railroad Depot, and but a square from and in view of 
the ocean. Carriage and boating excursion parties made up of guests of the 
House and their friends exclusively. 

On arrival of all trains via the West Jersey and Camden and Atlantic Rail- 
roads, carriages, street coaches, and street cars are in readiness to convey passengers 
to this House promptly, at a very moderate fare. Servants neat and obliging. 



P. O. Box 707. 



JAMES BRADY, Proprietor. 



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Gongress gall, m ™ ac ^Z,, Go<>" Bros., Owners. 

See description on Page 91 of this Hand-Book. 



The "Margate," 



CORNER PACIFIC and KENTUCKY AVENUES, 



SAMUEL KIRBY, Proprietor. 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR 



Peters' Beach Plou^e, 

CHARLES SMITH, Proprietor. 

This House is situated on Peters' Beach, in full view of Atlantic City, and only fifteen 
minutes' sail from the Inlet. Passenger boats at the wharf at all hours of the day. 

^pHE PETERS' BEACH HOUSE is delightfully located and is unsurpassed for those who 
are fond of boating, gunning, and fishing. Oysters are taken fresh out of the water almost 
at the door of the house. The house has nice, cool rooms, fine verandas, and first-class accom- 
modations for guests. 



THE SHELBUR NE. 

Directly on the beach. Open all the year. 

HOT AND COLD SEA-WATER BATHS. 

Thoroughly heated throughout. Large Sun Parlors. 

Telephone 36. A. B. ROBERTS. 

Vermont House, 

VERMONT AVENUE, ABOVE ATLANTIC. 

Unobstructed ocean view. The yachts from the Inlet are in full view as they pass in and 
out. Broad piazzas surround the house. 



Private bath houses on the grounds. Good bathing. 

Street cars pass every few minutes, and the express trains of the 

C. & A. R. R. land passengers on the premises. 

Telephone No. 52. MRS. M. E. COMPTON, Proprietress. 

FLORIDA HOUSE, 

Pacific Ave., between New York: and Tennessee. 

This house has just been enlarged and newly furnished throughout, and is heated 
by steam. The sanitary arrangements are perfect and all the appointments first- 
class in every respect. It presents two fronts, i. e., one on the drive and one 
toward the beach. Its location is most desirable, being only three minutes' walk 
from the depot and the same distance from the beach. 

OPEN ALL THE YEAR. MRS. S. E. COOK, PROPRIETRESS. 

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WAVERLY HOUSE, 

Corner Pacific and Ohio Avenues. 

0PEN all the year. All the modern improvements. Sea Baths on each floor. 
Heated by steam throughout. Gas and Electric Bells in each room. A 
Sun Gallery for the use of Winter Guests. The House is handsomely 
fitted up in first-class style, and for comfort and elegance is not surpassed by any 
Hotel on the Jersey Coast. 

JOHN E. MIFFLIN, Manager. MRS. J. L. BRYANT, Proprietor. 

WINDERMERE^ 

Tennessee Avenue* near the Ocean* 

New House, Newly Furnished. Convenient to all points 
of Local Interest. 



p.o. box 1676. MRS. C. L. HOUSTON. 

GURNEY COTTAGE, 

Ocean End of Virginia Avenue. 

Sanitarium for the treatment of nervous affections and mild cases of 
mental disease, under the care of the Managers of the Friends' Asylum, 
at Frankford, Philadelphia, is situated near the Ocean, with modern con- 
veniences and good sanitary arrangements. It is open all the year, is well 
heated, and is lighted by electricity. Twelve patients can be accommodated, both 
sexes being admitted. For information, address 

Dr. J. C. HALL, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa, 

Cataract House, 

(Formerly the Merchants',) 

New York Avenue, below Atlantic, 



Open all the Year. P. O. Box 1089. Free Buss to all Trains. 



THOS. H. CRINNIAN, 

F. O. Robbins, Clerk. Formerly of Niagara Falls. 

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HAGAN'S HOTEL 

Open All the Year. 

Corner Atlantic and New Jersey Avenues, 

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 



P. O. BOX 349. P. F. HAGAN, Proprietor, Formerly of Monroe Cottage. 




ALBRECHT'S HOTEL AND SUMMER GARDEN, 

Nos. 1716, 1718, 1720 ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

(Between Illinois and Indiana Aves.) 
Large and Airy Rooms. Vocal and Instrumental Concerts will be given during the 

Summer Season. Free admission to guests. 
W. B. ALB R ECHT, Pro prietor. 

Established for the Sale of Pure Liquors Only. 

1Arir.LIA.lVI I. WALSH. 

DEALER IN 

WHISKIES, WIINES, BRANDIES, Etc., 

1322 Atlantic Avenue, opposite CHy Hall. 

Brown Stout and Beer on Draught, Ice Cold. 



m °[he Revere, * 

PARK PLACE, OPPOSITE "THE BRIGHTON." 

Haifa square from the Ocean and Park Parlor. A thoroughly good house. Open 
all the year. Capacity 100. Closets and waste water connected with the underground 
sewer. Sanitary conditions perfect. 

TELEPHONE No. 90, connecting with Philadelph'a. M. DAY, PROPRIETOR. 





P. O. Box 700. BY THE SEA. A. P. Morris. 



^he ptglen. 



Michigan Ave., ab. Pacific. 

P. O. Box 852. 
MRS. L. W. REED. 



A new house, newly and comfortably furnished throughout. Thoroughly adapted to both 
summer and winter service. Gas on every floor. Full ocean view and open all the year. 



"WALLINGFORD, 



9) 



Pacific Avenue, between Kentucky and Illinois Avenues. 

Rooms all Carpeted. Gas throughout. Hair Mattresses. Spring Beds. One square 
from the Beach. City Water. All Modern Improvements. Terms Moderate. 

P. O. Box 1123. M. A. GRAVATT,Proprietor. 

KUEHNLE'S HOTEL, 

OPEN ALL THE YEAR. 

Corner Atlantic and South Carolina Aves. 

NEAR C. & A. R. R. DEPOT. 
Rooms thoroughly heated. LOUIS KUEHNLE, Proprietor. 



Terms Moderate. i-< ^d^S F^OLGL Open all the Year. 

Corner .Atlantic and Qeorgia Avenues. 

It is in full view of the ocean. Bar stocked with the best wines, liquors, and cigars. 
Egg Harbor wines a specialty; sold to hotels and cottages in large and small quantities 

P. O. BOX 818. JOHN A. EVERS, Proprietor. 

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THE MINNEQUA. 



Accommoda- 
tions for 

Three 

Hundred 

Guests. 




Underground 
Drainage. 

Spring } 
Water. 



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This popular house is situated on Pacific Avenue, near Arkan- 
sas, one square from the ocean, and one square from the Reading 
Railroad Station. Newly furnished, and all the modern improve- 
ments of a first-class hotel. Home comforts, and at reasonable rates. 

Omnibuses run direct to the house. 



PROTECTION to la- 
dies and families on 
the beach front, the regu- 
lations insuring propri- 
ety at all times. The 
premises are for the ex- 
clusive use of patrons, 
and are a select rendez- 
vous for friends. The 
verandas are inclosed in 
glass. Rooms are car- 
peted, comfortably fur- 
nished, and heated. The 




Between Illinois and Indiana Aves, 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR. 

Situated at the Water's Edge. 



Park Baths and Annex 



afford superior accommo- 
dations for surf bathing. 
Dressing rooms rented on time, and private robes a specialty. Limited num- 
ber for daily customers. Fresh water shower baths. Guard and boat for protec- 
tion on the beach. Laundry attached, insuring perfect cleanliness. 

Newspapers, telephone, bell boys, writing material, beach chairs, and um- 
brellas furnished guests of the parlor free of charge. 

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• HOT BATHS. • 

Freshness and vigor are imparted to those who use the Hot Sea-Water Baths. They are better 

than medicine. Physicians recommend them for invalids. 

The establishment of Kipple & McCann, sea end of Ocean Avenue, is fitted up with every 

convenience, and has a Sun Parlor attached. 

KIPPLE & McCANN, Proprietors. 

GEORGE W. JACKSON, 
Yj ot gea \\?ater gaths, 

BOARDWALK, ab. PENNSYLVANIA AVE. 

(Adjoining Seaside Ocean Parlor.) 



100 private yZjoarimenis, 

Complete in all their appointments. 



Largest and best accommodations for Surf 
Battling on the Coast. 



-1 OIPIEirsr ALL -TIHIIE YEAR. 



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CHELSEA. 



The cheapest Lots are in this new and improving section of 
Atlantic City. 

Size of Lots, 50 by 125 feet, on the cross Avenues; on Pacific 
Avenue, corners 65 by 125 ; between corners, 60 by 125 feet. 

Lots graded and streets built free of expense to the purchaser. 
Prices from $850 up. Terms easy. 

Special inducements to persons who will build at once. 

In front of Chelsea there is the safest bathing in Atlantic City, 
being entirely free from current and under-tow. The place is de- 
sirably located and extensive improvements are now in progress. 

For further particulars apply to 

I. G. ADAMS & CO., 

Telephone Connection. 2031 'Atlantic AveUUC 

LONGPORT. 



TT7HIS new and attractive place is situated six miles southwest of Atlantic City, and is 

I conceded to be one of the finest locations on the Atlantic coast for a summer and winter 

resort. Being nearly surrounded by water — Atlantic Ocean, Great Egg Harbor Inlet, and 

Beach Thoroughfare — it offers superior advantages to persons in quest of health or pleasure. 

Bathing, Boating, and Fishing 

equal any on the New Jersey coast. The Railroad between Atlantic City and Longport, 
being in close proximity to the sea, affords a delightful ride. 

Longport supplies the want of a quiet family resort within easy access of Philadel- 
phia. A number of fine cottages have been built and others are being erected. Telephonic 
communication has been established. 

Steamboat communication with Somers' Point and Ocean City. The "Aberdeen" is 
open all the year. Choice lots for sale by 

M. S. McCULLOUGH, 

LONGPORT, N. J., 

Or 1018 Arch Street, Philadelphia. 

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Great trees from little acorns grow, 

That bear from year to year : 
There's greater crowds, quite near the clouds, 

On Applegate's great Pier. 



Jjpplegate's Jjtlantic C>ty P' er 

contains four decks, shady and cool, great fishing grounds, 
elegant music, select Sunday-night sacred concerts, 

FIRST-CLASS MINSTREL SHOWS,- — 

by the most popular artists in the world. 

THE ORIGINAL FIVE CENT HOME OF RECREATION. 

Hundreds of thousands have walked these spacious 
decks. Nothing like it on the American coast. The 
most extensive likeness concern at any seaside resort 
in the world is connected with the pier, which is free 
to patrons of the galleries. 

Fare Five Cents, both Night and Day. Baby Carriages Free. 

Baylor's * Central * Bakery 

AND 

ICE-CRE£]V[ jSALOOH, 



1324, 1326, 1328 Atlantic Ave., opp. City Hall. 

Three Stores in One. Finest Place in the City. 

The largest and best Ladies' and Gentlemen's Restaurant in Atlantic City. First-class accom- 
modations for visitors. 

SPACIOUS BANQUETING HALL ON SECOND FLOOR. 

y/jJitfjvi.fljf'g ejloieE eorlFECtfioife. 

Hotels, Boarding Houses, and Cottages supplied with the greatest variety and finest quality of 
BREAD, CAKES, AND ICE-CREAM. 

telephone No. 88. JOHN S. TAYLOR, Proprietor. 

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1881. 1887- 

Atlantic Qit\f [Rational gan^. 

Capital, - $50,000. Surplus, - $25,000. 

CHAS. EVANS, President. F. P. QUIGLEY, Cashier. 

DIRECTORS : 

Chas. Evans, Walter Garrett, R. H. Turner, Geo. Allen, Jos. A. Barstow, John B. 

Champion, Elisha Roberts, Jos. H. Borton, Dr. Thos. K. Reed. 



000. 



capital, — * (yjerchants' §an^ * — *so, 

OF ATLANTIC CITY. 

WILLIAM CURTISS, President. JOS. R. FLANIGEN, Jr., Cashier. 

A General Banking Business Transacted. Drafts Issued, Payable in all Principal Cities of 
the United States and Europe. Collections made on all accessible points. 

SAFE-DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. 

2 per ct. Interest, no notice to draw. 2 l A per ct. Interest, ten days' notice. 
Small Safes to Rent in Fire and Burglar-Proof Vaults. 

~i»€iecfi£idL national luk,^- 

ATLANTIC CITY. 
CAPITAL, - - - $100,000. 

GEO. F. CURRIE, President. BENJ. H. BROWN, Vice-President. J. G. HAMMER, Cashier. 

DIRECTORS: 

John W. Moffly, Aaron Fries, George F. Currie, Benj. H. Brown, Joseph Thompson, 

Enoch Cordery, Israel G. Adams, Enoch B. Scull, James H Mason, Daniel 

Morris, L. C. Albertson, Louis Kuehnle, Wesley Robinson. 

-r- REMITTANCE TO EUROPE BY BANK DRAFTS AND POSTAL ORDERS. -*- 

UPHAM'S 

Bal^ePY ■ a^ ■ I®© ■ dve^m • &aI©0RS, 

722 and 1400 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



DAVID JOHNSTONS BOTTLING ESTABLISHMENT. 

OFFICE, LANSDALE HOUSE, 

25 NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE. 

Mineral Water, Sarsaparilla, Ginger Ale, Porter, Ale, Lager and Weiss Beer, Brown Stout, 
Porter, Seltzer, Apollinaris Water. Orders promptly attended to. 



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SliMIS rjOUSE 



Restaurant Attached. 

On the European Plan. Open all night. 
Y All the year round. 

1016 Atlantic Avenue. D . w . hannis, prop*. 

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HAND-BOOK 



OF 



ATLANTIC CITY 



NEW JERSEY. 



A WINTER, SPRING, AND SUMMER RESORT FOR HEALTH, 
REST, AND PLEASURE. 



With Maps, Illustrations, a Guide to Places of Interest, 
and other information. 



Compiled by A. M. HESTON.^^^pymGi^S^ 

MAR 311887/ 

"pV-VVASHmG^ 



PHILADELPHIA: 
Franklin Printing House, 321 Chestnut St, 
1887, 



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Good-bye to pain and care ! I take 

Mine ease to-day ; 
Here, where the sunny waters break 
And ripples this keen breeze, I shake 
All burdens from the heart, all weary thoughts away. 

Ha ! like a kind hand on my brow 

Comes this fond breeze, 
Cooling its dull and feverish glow ; 
While through my being seems to flow 
The breath of a new life — the healing of the seas. 



— Whittier. 



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Copyright, 1887, by A. M. Hhston. 
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CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

Map of Atlantic City. 

Principal Hotels and Boarding-Houses, 1-16 

Frontispiece — The Invitation, 18 

On the Beach, 22 

Preface, 23 

En Route, 25 

Atlantic City, 29 

Past and Present, 33 

Health, Rest, and Pleasure, 35 

Summer Days by the Sea, 46 

Water Supply and Drainage, • . . . . 56 

Distances from Atlantic City, 60 

Hook, Line, and Trigger, 61 

Mortuary Statistics, 66 

Institutions for the Afflicted, 68 

Longport and Chelsea, 72 

Hints for the Seashore, 75 

Of Hotels Near a Whole City Full, 83 

Along Atlantic Avenue, ... 95 

Around and About, m 

Memoranda, 120 

Hotels and Boarding-Houses in Atlantic City 131 

Leading Business Houses, 135-152 

Map of Seaside Resorts, 153 



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ON THE BEACH. 



The waves dash in, and the waves roll out, 
They toss, they tumble, and frisk about. 
The sea is broad and long and wide, 
We on the beach note but its tide ; 

Note but the billows' broad expanse, 
Beyond, where the white-winged vessels dance ; 
The restless pulse of a power sublime, 
That heeds no season, and knows no time. 

We reach for the snowy flakes that yearn 
For the under current's backward turn, 
And catch but a breath of saline air, 
While a wave runs out to sing beware. 

Break on, O sea, of the ages past ! 
Our thoughts you anchor and bind them fast ; 
While you are deaf and blind, that we, 
Mites of a day, are your lovers — sea ! 

— Mrs. S. L. Oberholtzer. 



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PREFACE. 



TTTHIS Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City will serve as a 
guide to the reader, and save him the trouble of asking 
*^ and answering a thousand questions. It contains just 
what every visitor, as well as resident, ought to know 
respecting the greatest watering place in the country. Many of 
the illustrations are new, being drawn expressly for this work. 
The frontispiece, and a few others, are the property of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad Company, kindly loaned for this purpose. The 
map of Atlantic City is the best work of the kind yet published. 
The descriptive features of the book were written after personal 
visits to the various places of interest in the city. It is hoped, 
therefore, that the Hand-Book will prove not only an invaluable 
companion on the spot, but an ever-welcome and entertaining 
friend for future perusal and reference at the home fireside. 
The editor does not presume that the book is faultless ; but to ap- 
proximate such a degree of completeness will be his constant en- 
deavor. He will, therefore, be grateful for any errors or omissions 
pointed out, or corrections suggested. 



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En I^oute. 



TTTHE ride from Philadelphia to Atlantic City in search of health 
I or pleasure is not entirely devoid of interest. The traveler 
1_, has the choice of three routes, two of which are a part of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad system. The other route is by way 
of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad, operated by the 
Reading Company, which starts from the foot of Walnut Street. 
The popular routes, however, are the West Jersey and the Camden 
and Atlantic, operated by the Pennsylvania Company. Crossing 
from the foot of Market Street, Philadelphia, the traveler takes the 
West Jersey cars at Camden and passes south near the Delaware 
River to Gloucester, a city of over six thousand inhabitants, devoted 
to manufacturing. It was founded in 1689, and was held by Lord 
Cornwallis with five thousand British troops in 1777. The next sta- 
tion is Westville, near the mouth of Timber Creek, where Captain 
Cornelius JacobeseMey, of the Dutch West India Company, founded 
Fort Nassau in 1621. The Colonists were soon at feud with the 
Indians, and being decoyed into an unfavorable position, they 
were all massacred and the fort was destroyed. The train next 
passes the city of Woodbury, which one authority says should be 
spelled Woodberry, a place of about four thousand inhabitants, 
many of them Philadelphia business men. The place takes its 
name from the family of Woods, who came from Berry, in Lanca- 
shire, England, in 1684. Richard Wood, the first settler, came 
out with the earliest emigrants to Philadelphia. Leaving his family 
in that town, he descended the Delaware and paddled two or three 
miles up the Piscozackasingz-Kil, now called Woodbury Creek, 
until he came to a likely place for an habitation. In the winter of 
1777, Lord Cornwallis had his headquarters in the village of Wood- 
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26 Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 

bury, During his stay some of his men seized a valuable cow- 
belonging to an ardent Whig. The latter waited upon his Lordship 
and requested a restoration of the property. Cornwallis was 
desirous of knowing the political principles of the man. The 
sturdy patriot tried to evade the question, but at length — cow or 
no cow — the truth would out, when his Lordship, in admiration of 
the man's independence, restored to him his cow. Succeeding 
stations are Wenonah, a very pretty suburban village, Sewell, Pit- 
man Grove, and Glassboro, the latter a town of four thousand 
inhabitants. The place was settled by a family of Germans named 
Stangeer, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, who com- 
menced the manufacture of glass. They failed in business, and the 
works were purchased in 1781 by Colonel Thomas Heston, a Revo- 
lutionary patriot. The place was known as Heston' s Glass Works 
until some years after, when, at the suggestion of a member of the 
celebrated Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, on the occasion of a con- 
vivial gathering at Colonel Heston's house, after a hunt and cap- 
ture of Reynard, the name was changed to Glassboro, and has ever 
since borne that name. The works are still in the possession of 
Colonel Heston's descendants, the Whitneys — his daughter, Bath- 
sheba, having married Captain Ebenezer Whitney — and are the 
largest as well as the oldest in the country. Beyond Clayton, with 
its three thousand inhabitants, the train passes the vineyards of 
Franklinville, Iona, and Malaga, and thence to Newfield, where 
express trains sometimes stop. After leaving Newfield, there are 
two or three small hamlets before reaching May's Landing, the 
county seat of Atlantic County, containing about five hundred 
inhabitants. This village was founded by George May in 17 10, 
and is at the head of navigation on the Great Egg Harbor River. 
The greatest water power in the State is at this place, furnishing 
motive power for a large cotton mill, owned by the Wood broth- 
ers, one of whom is President of the West Jersey and Atlantic 
Railroad. 

• In the latter part of 18 13, the sloop New Jersey, from May's 
Landing, manned by Captain Barton and two hands, was taken by 
a British armed schooner off Cape May. A young middy, two 
Englishmen, and an Irishman were put on board the Jersey, with 
orders to follow the schooner. But three Yankees were not to be 
beaten by such poor odds as this. Barton and his men soon 



Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N.J. 27 

recovered command of the sloop and run her in at Somers' Point, 
with the middy and his three assistants as prisoners. The first was 
confined for awhile and then exchanged, and of the latter, the 
two Englishmen soon went to work in the neighborhood, and the 
Irishman enlisted on board one of Jefferson's gun-boats and fought 
bravely for the "gridiron." The last station before reaching 
Atlantic City is Pleasantville, a thriving village, situated on a 
bluff overlooking the bay. 

If the traveler prefers, he may return to Philadelphia by another 
route, round-trip tickets being good on either of the two roads 
operated by the Pennsylvania Company. Absecon, the first station, 
is situated on the bay shore two miles above Pleasantville, and is 
inhabited by a considerable number of well-to-do people, many of 
whom are either commanders of or interested in vessel property. 
The history of the town dates fron 1695, when Thomas Budd, the 
owner of many thousand acres of land on the beaches and the main- 
land, disposed of large tracts to actual settlers. Each of his deeds 
has this clause inserted: "With the privilege of cutting cedar, 
and commonidge for cattell, etc., on ye swamps and beaches laid 
out by ye said Thomas Budd for commons." The exaction of 
these privileges at this date would cause much trouble, as a large 
portion of the built-up portion of Atlantic City stands upon one 
of the surveys of Thomas Budd. 

Above Absecon is Egg Harbor City, a German settlement, where 
the celebrated Egg Harbor wines are made. Elwood is the site of 
a projected city, with parks, avenues, and squares laid out on the 
long reaches of sandy soil. Hammonton, midway between Atlantic 
City and Camden, is a prosperous town of three thousand inhabit- 
ants, settled by New Englanders in i860, and situated on the old 
pine plains of Atlantic County. The town is beautifully laid out 
and the inhabitants are largely engaged in fruit raising. The train 
passes Winslow, Waterford, Atco, Berlin, Kirkwood, and other 
smaller villages before reaching Haddonfield, six miles from Cam- 
den. This is a borough of two thousand inhabitants, where many 
Philadelphia business men have their suburban homes. It was set- 
tled by Friends or Quakers in 1690 and was named after an eminent 
Quakeress named Elizabeth Haddon. The Continental Congress 
remained several weeks here, and the place was afterward occupied 
by British troops. Several very interesting Revolutionary incidents 



28 Illustrated Hand- Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 






connected with Haddonfield have found their way into print, but 
are too lengthy to be copied into this Hand-Book. During the 
French Revolution, Louis Philippe, who subsequently became King 
of France, made his home for a short time with one of the Quaker 
families of the village. Leaving Haddonfield, the train passes 
through a pretty country, and finally reaches Camden, whence the 
ferry-boats convey the passenger to Philadelphia. The distance is 
sixty-four miles by the West Jersey route, and sixty by the Camden 
and Atlantic, and the time is usually about ninety minutes. 
Throughout the winter, spring, and summer seasons there are fre- 
quent express trains over both roads, and attached to each train are 
elaborately furnished parlor cars in charge of attentive porters. 
The special care in the management of both roads is exhibited 
in the regularity with which the trains are run, the close connection 
maintained with other railroads, by which transfers may be made 
without delay, and the absence of serious accident within recent 
years. For several years the Pennsylvania Company has made an 
effort to meet travel from points beyond the line of the Camden 
and Atlantic and West Jersey Roads, and the schedules are now 
arranged with the view of serving, by close connection, the conven- 
ience of parties arriving from New York and points beyond, and 
of those coming upon the numerous lines centering in Philadelphia. 
It is specially a passenger railway company, and to satisfy this trade 
it is constantly adding first-class facilities in every branch of its 
business. Indeed, in equipment and management the Company 
has no equal among the lines running to the seacoast. 



.Atlantic City. 



J7V TLANTIC CITY, the most popular resort on the Atlantic 
Y^» coast, is situated on Absecon Beach, N. J., between Abse- 
•J con Inlet and Great Egg Harbor Inlet, within sixty miles 

of Philadelphia and one hundred and fifty miles of New York. 
As stated in the preceding chapter, it is reached by three rail- 
roads from Philadelphia, the Camden and Atlantic, West Jersey 
and Atlantic, and the Philadelphia and Atlantic City. From 
New York and the East the Pennsylvania Railroad via Trenton 
connects with the West Jersey Road at Camden. The time 
from Philadelphia is one hour and a half, and from New York 
four hours and a half. The Philadelphia and Atlantic City 
Railroad connects with the New Jersey Southern and Central Rail- 
road of New Jersey from New York. 

The resident population of Atlantic City has increased within 
ten years from twenty-two hundred to nearly ten thousand, while 
in summer the visitors increase the population to seventy-five thou- 
sand. There are several good schools, with an attendance of nearly 
two thousand school children, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Roman 
Catholic, Methodist and Baptist churches, and a large and attract- 
ive City Hall. 

As a winter resort Atlantic City is largely patronized not only 
by people from Baltimore and Philadelphia, but by many from New 
York and the Eastern cities. The wonderful tonic and curative 
influence of the sea air have been thoroughly tested within recent 
years, and hundreds have been benefited by a sojourn at the sea- 
side in the winter. 

The peculiarity of Atlantic City's position, the salubrity of its 
climate, the singular dryness of the atmosphere, and the mildness of 
the temperature render the place a desirable resort in the fall, 
winter, and spring months. Hot and cold sea-water baths are pro- 
vided throughout the year. 

Convalescents from typhoid fever, those suffering from malaria 

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and bronchial troubles, or those who desire and need rest from the 
cares and anxieties of their daily vocations, can here derive great 
benefit. If they will learn the hygienic advantages of Atlantic City 
they will cease to go long distances or undertake tedious journeys. 




The well-ascertained salubrity 
of Atlantic City has made it the 
chief winter health resort in the 
United States. 

Its hotels are the finest and 
most comfortable on the coast. 

It has a perfect system of sani- 
tation. 

It has an abundant water supply from natural springs on the 
mainland. 

Its death rate is smaller than that of most other cities of the 
country. 

It is lighted with gas and electricity, has a fire and burglar- 



Illustrated Hand- Book of Atlantic City, N.J. 31 

alarm telegraph system, and a first-class volunteer fire department, 
with several engines and hose carriages, and a hook-and- ladder 
truck. 

It has ample telegraph and telephone facilities. 

Its people are intelligent, liberal, and cosmopolitan, and they 
cordially welcome new residents or visitors. 

Atlantic City is separated from the mainland by an arm of the 
sea, called the Thoroughfare, across which there are three railroad 
bridges and one turnpike bridge. A hard, smooth strand stretches 
from Absecon Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet, and at low tide it 
affords a splendid drive ten miles in length. 

The principal avenues are Atlantic and Pacific, running parallel 
with the ocean, Atlantic being one hundred feet wide and Pacific 
sixty feet. The cross avenues are named after the various States, 
beginning with Maine and ending with Texas Avenue. Pennsyl- 
vania, North Carolina and Virginia Avenues are each eighty feet 
wide, the other avenues being fifty feet in width. 

A passenger railway traverses Atlantic avenue from the Inlet 
House to the Excursion House, and several lines of omnibuses 
convey passengers to all parts of the city. There are numerous 
livery stables where carriages and other conveyances may be hired. 
Hacks and omnibuses meet all arriving and departing trains. 

To the inquiry, " Whence came Atlantic City?" we reply : It 
is a refuge thrown up by the continent-building sea. Fashion took 
a caprice and shook it out of a fold of her flounce. A railroad laid 
a wager to find the shortest distance from Penn's treaty elm to the 
Atlantic Ocean : it dashed into the water and a city emerged from 
its train as a consequence of the manoeuvre. Thai is the origin 
of Atlantic City. From a small colony of summer pleasure seek- 
ers it has grown to be a famous watering-place and health resort, 
with a still greater future before it. 

Juan Ponce de Leon, the Spanish explorer of the sixteenth cen- 
tury, sought in vain for the spring whose virtues were credulously 
believed to restore the vigor of youth to the aged. Searching for 
this fountain of youth, he landed on the coast of Florida in the year 
15 1 2, and in that country there are springs almost innumerable, 
each of which to-day lays claim to the high antiquity of being the 
identical spring in which the great Spaniard performed his daily 
ablutions. History informs us, however, that nowhere could he 



32 Illustrated Hand- Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 

find this mythical fountain of youth ; but who will deny that if he 
had extended his search northward, and landed upon this island, 
he would have found here a well-nigh perfect realization of his 
hopes ? 

Atlantic City truly is a place of rest, and for those in quest of 
health, an equable climate in winter, and refreshing breezes in 
summer; for those who would enjoy the invigorating sea air and be 
charmed with the music of the surf; for those who would delight 
in the pleasures of yachting or fishing ; for those who would have 
long life, good living, good society, and be inspired by the gran- 
deur of old ocean; for those who, like Ponce de Leon, would dis- 
cover the place which imparts youth to the aged, health to the sick, 
and hope to the despondent, there is no more highly favored spot 
anywhere in the land than this beautiful City by the Sea. 




Past and Preserit. 



IN the early days of American history all the population of what 
afterward became the United States lived near the Atlantic 
coast, and for many years after the Revolution the inhabitants 
had penetrated but comparatively a short distance inland, so that 
the ocean, with its indenting bays and sounds, and the rivers 
emptying into it along every part of the coast, furnished attractive 




ONE OF THE FIRST COTTAGES 
(RECENTLY REMODELED). 



facilities for habitation and pleasure. The seashore was easy of 
access in summer time, even for that portion of the population 
most remote from the coast, and the delights of the element were 
available for a people seemingly amphibious by nature, by history, 
and by practice — a people who had little idea of recreation that 
was not conducted near the seashore. 

Although the people of the United States are now scattered far 
and wide over countless square miles of country, until they have 

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34 Illustrated Hand- Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 

occupied nearly every portion of a territory lying between two great 
oceans three thousand miles apart, and with an expanse from north 
to south nearly as great, they have not lost the distinguishing 
traits of their early history, but still have an inherent love for Old 
Ocean. Watering-places are as much a necessity to denizens of 
the interior as to those living in States bordering on the Atlantic 
Ocean, Descendants of the fathers still love the ocean haunts and 
seashore resorts, and year after year there are pilgrimages to the 
ocean from every inland section, the devotees traveling thousands 
of miles and numbering hundreds of thousands of souls annually. 

In process of time favorable situations upon the Atlantic coast 
have become well known, even famous, among communities a 
thousand miles away from the sound of the surf or sight of the 
rolling billow, and it has come to pass that people of these inland 
sections know the seashore better than some who dwell within 
reach of the ocean breezes. Among the places thus distinguished 
and highly favored none present more of intrinsic merit than 
Atlantic City, the great American winter and summer sanitarium. In 
point of mild climatic influences, and situations affording summer 
conditions prolonged throughout a greater portion of the year, some 
places lying in the lower latitudes of this country may be considered 
superior, when those conditions alone are considered, but with 
regard to all other features characterizing the place Atlantic City 
stands above and beyond any other resort on the Atlantic coast. 

The Atlantic City beach has become celebrated as among the 
finest on the coast of the United States. The surf, pouring in- 
ward from the expanse of a great ocean and washing a beach of 
clearest sands, which glitter in the summer sunrays and send back 
in myriad flashing streams the water which never ceases thus to 
advance and retreat ; the endless panorama of life upon the water, 
the strand, and the boardwalk, constantly in motion and ever- 
changing ; the rolling porpoise enlivening the outlook ; the light- 
house and life-saving station at the inlet — all these and many other 
attractions are found at Atlantic City, to say nothing of the mild 
and healthful climate in winter, the cool, invigorating breezes in 
summer, and the proximity to centres which renders its location 
within such easy reach that its denizens may, within a few hours, 
find themselves in either of the great cities of New York, Phila- 
delphia, or Baltimore. 



jiealtli, I^est, and Pleasure. 



( JV LTHOUGH the history of Atlantic City as a pleasure 
</fty resort dates from the time of its founding in 1854, it was 
J ' not until more than twenty years later that the place 
became widely known as a winter health resort or sanitarium. To- 
day there is no northern winter resort more popular, none more 
largely patronized, and none more urgently recommended by phy- 
sicians generally than Atlantic City. The physicians of Philadel- 
phia were the first to discover the wonderful curative effects of the 
saline air of Atlantic City, and to them, more than to any other 
class of men, is due the credit of making the city what it is — a 
famous sanitarium. Overtaxed brains are ordered hither by Dr. 
S. Weir Mitchell, the man who has the honor of having discovered 
the "rest cure." He and his learned congeners have found that 
many chronic diseases result from nervous exhaustion. The suf- 
ferer from incipient paralysis or brain -softening is ordered to 
Atlantic City for six .months, and in many instances returns to his 
home cured. It was N. P. Willis who first said that " consump- 
tion was curable if the patient could stop consuming." The once 
dreaded disease to which every New England woman resigned her- 
self, fifty years ago, if her lungs began to trouble her, is as curable 
now as the measles, if taken in time. Pulmonary and bronchial 
troubles are much alleviated by the warmed ozone of Atlantic 
City. 

It is believed by many scientists and students of hygiene that 
the air at Atlantic City is "hostile to physical debility," and 
that to those who suffer from our great American complaint, ner- 
vous prostration, whether brought on by overwork or by our 
changeful climate, it promises not only recuperation, but a perma- 
ment re-establishment of health. 

The favorable comment of physicians and scientists soon estab- 
lished for Atlantic City a reputation as a health resort far beyond 
that of older but less favored localities. The winter business of the 

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hotels had its in- 
ception in 1876, 
when the late F. 
W. Hemsley, of 
Brighton Cottage, 
decided to provide 
a house thoroughly 
adapted for the 
accommodation of 
winter and spring 
as well as summer 
visitors, and though 
at the time this was 
thought to be a 
rather hazardous 
experiment, the 
result has been emi- 
nently successful. 
Visitors from all 
parts of the coun- 
try, jnany of whom 
have heretofore 
sought health and 
relaxation in the 
more distant South- 
ern resorts, have 
found in the genial 
atmosphere of At- 
lantic City the 
needed rest and 
restoration ; while 
its superior advan- 
tages in point of 
accessibility have 
made it the most 
popular place of 
resort on the con- 
tinent. Hundreds 
of those who have 
been benefited by 



Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 37 

winter and spring visits bear willing testimony to the tonic effects 
of its bracing atmosphere. The climate is equable and the atmos- 
phere free from the humidity which prevails at other points on the 
coast. Indeed, in this latter respect Atlantic City stands without 
a rival. 

The popularity of Atlantic City as a sanitarium is now so gen- 
eral and its reputation so well established that many hotels and 
cottages have been erected or enlarged to accommodate the ever- 
increasing influx of winter and spring visitors. The success which 
crowned the pioneer effort of the Brighton is well maintained, and 
from a small boarding-house it has grown to be a mammoth hotel, 
capable of accommodating nearly three hundred guests. Other 
houses, notably the Mansion, Seaside, Haddon, Dennis, Waverly, 
Shelburne, Traymore, and Minnequa, have been very much enlarged 
and improved to meet the demands of those who come here 
during the winter and spring months for health, rest, or plea- 
sure. 

Of the many thousands who visit Atlantic City in the interval 
between the first of January and the first of June, it is not to be 
supposed that all are in search of health. As has been already 
hinted, a three-fold object is associated with life at this resort at 
that season. Invalids, especially those troubled with bronchial 
affections or convalescing from malarial attacks, following the 
advice of their physicians, come here to regain their wonted health 
and strength ; others whose daily life of care and toil has brought 
on nervous exhaustion seek rest and recuperation where it is gener- 
ally to be found ; and others still, following the b'ent of fashion, 
are to be found among the throng of pleasure-seekers who hie 
themselves hither during the Lenten season. 

In winter, when the majority of the guests are invalids, any but the 
mildest forms of dissipation are, of course, out of the question ; but 
during Lent, when the more extravagant gayeties of the rest of the 
world are temporarily suspended, Atlantic City becomes the scene 
of genuine fun and frolic. During the past two or three seasons it 
has been the generally acknowledged correct thing among the most 
exclusively fashionable circles of New York and Philadelphia to form 
Lenten parties for Atlantic City. Upon the advent of Lent some 
good-natured married lady of unimpeachable social standing organ- 
izes a party of from a dozen to twenty young people, and offers to 



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chaperon them to Atlantic City. They go for a week or ten days, 
often staying longer, and while they are here the heretofore quiet 
hotels ring with the sounds of music, dancing, and merry laughter. 
The more sober-minded invalids gaze with a mild surprise not un- 















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mixed with pleasure at these jolly parties, and by force of example 
become more energetic and inclined to forget their invalidism. 

^considering Atlantic City as a winter and spring resort, it is 
proper to offer some explanation of the causes which produce such 
beneficial ^results. To this end we must have recourse to the 
opinions of leading physicians and scientists who have made a 



Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 



39 



careful study of the matter. " Actual experience," says Dr. Board- 
man Reed in the Medical Times, " has demonstrated that sea air is 
as valuable in winter as in summer. It also bears out the statistics 
which prove that the climate of Atlantic City is superior to that of 
most seacoast towns, being drier, more equable, and unusually mild, 
considering the latitude." The same authority says: "Another 
peculiarity of the location of Atlantic City is that all the winds from 
the landward must pass for long distances — hundreds of miles in 
some directions — over a very dry and porous sandy soil, upon which 
snow rarely lies for any time. These winds, including those from 
the north, northwest, west, and southwest, are, therefore, to some 
extent both dried and warmed in their passage. Though the coast 
of Southern New Jersey has a general direction from northeast to 
southwest, the beach at Atlantic City trends more to the westward, 
so that it faces almost directly southward. Therefore south as well 
as east winds are sea breezes here, and both blow across the Gulf 
Stream, which exercises considerable influence upon the climate of 
this part of the coast." 

The dryness of the climate of Atlantic City, as compared with 
other seaside resorts, is best shown by statistics of the rainfall, 
which is less here than at any other place on the coast, as appears 
from the records of the Signal Service at Washington. The follow- 
ing table represents the annual amount of rain at the principal cities 
and stations on the coast for five consecutive years ; also the aver- 
age rainfall at each station since it was established : 















AVERAGE. 


Atlantic City, N. J., . . 


42.90 


40.60 


44-23 


55-48 


39-55 


40.24 


8 years. 


Barnegat, N. J., . . . . 


52.25 


49-38 


47.27 


60.13 


58.85 


50.20 


8 " 


Cape May, N. J., . . . 
Charleston, S. C., . . . 


47-99 


42.44 


50.92 


60.54 


40.41 


46.70 


10 " 


68.62 


64.33 


44-47 


48.80 


48.63 


io.91 


11 " 


Jacksonville, Fla., . . . 
Newport, R. I., . . . . 


52. ir 


51.62 


5499 


66.87 


48.69 


55-74 


10 " 


55.84 


52.20 


40.75 


6i.45 


44-52 


5998 


6 " 


New Orleans, La., . . . 


73 3i 


58.29 


60.84 


67-33 


58.22 


60.63 


11 " 


New York City, .... 


42.68 


43.68 


33-24 


49-5Q 


35.60 


42.67 


11 " 


Norfolk, Va., 


66.28 


44-44 


34-54 


54.48 


46.49 


51-43 


11 " 


Portland, Me 


45-6i 


41.10 


38.24 


45.02 


42.99 


39-33 


10 " 


Sandy Hook, N. J., . . 
Wilmington, N. C., . . 


54.86 


60.37 


40-75 


53-14 


46.20 


52.05 


8 " 


84.12 


50.90 


50 13 


53-35 


46.56 


57.28 


11 " 



This table of rainfall shows that Portland, Me., alone of all the 
cities and stations mentioned, had during that period a less rainfall 
than Atlantic City. This is an extraordinary fact. Atlantic City 
has less rainfall than any other resort on the coast, so far as the 
official records show, and has thus a strong basis for its claim to 
exceptional dryness. 



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Signal . Observer L. M. Tarr, who has charge of the United 
States Signal Station at Atlantic City, has kindly furnished the 
compiler of this Hand-Book with the following statement of the 
temperature in this city during each of the twelve months of the 
last four years : 





1883. 


1884. 


1885 


1886. 














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6 


u 






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ss 


8 3 




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8 k 


P*1 




8 £ 






s 2 


S 2 


F2 


Ss 


3 « 

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s 2 


S2 


Pi 


P2 


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P2 


P X 




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3 a 




A s 


Maxi 
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P 


c 0, 

SI 


% ft 


It 


ii 




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En 


H 


H 


H 


H 


H 


H 


H i 


H 
29.7 


H 
52.8 


r* 


January, . . 


13.2 


46.0 


5-2 


29.2 


50.0 


4.0 


32.3 


53-o 


7-5 


2.1 


February, . 


35-1 


64.0 


i-7 


37-6 


57-b 


11. 


25-7 


48.1 


5-o 


29.9 


50.3 


2.3 


March, . . . 


35-o 


62.0 


11. 


38.6 


60 2 


8.0 


3i-4 


55-3 


8-S 


38,1 


67.5 


10.6 


April, . . . 


45-5 


63.0 


27.0 


47.0 


67.0 


29-5 


46.6 


75-2 


28.9 


48.0 


83-4 


28.4 


May, . . . 


56.7 


79.0 


40.0 - 


58-7 


78.1 


41.0 


1 57-8 


75 .0 

87.3 


35-4 


56.0 


74-9 


4o.5 


June, . . . 
July, .... 


67.2 


87.0 


52.0 


66.4 


87.2 


49.0 


66.7 


52.0 


65-7 


82.0 


50.3 


73.0 


94.0 


57-o 


70.6 


89.9 


56.9 


73-4 


90.9 
89.3 


56.8 


72.1 


86.1 


58.3 


August, . . 


70S 


91.0 


55.o 


71.5 


88.6 


61. 1 


73-1 


48.8 


7i-4 


86.5 


55-3 


September, . 


65.1 


80.0 


45.0 


69.7 


86.2 


49-7 


64.7 


80.6 


44.0 


68.5 


85.6 


49-8 


October, . . 


SS.b 


75-0 


39-8 


S8-S 


83.0 


32-4 


55-8 


73-9 


33-6 


58.1 


73-9 


36.2 


November, . 


45-9 


63.0 


18.7 


' 45.7 


69.9 


20.0 


' 46.4 


64.7 


26.8 


46.7 


65.0 


24.4 


December, . 


37-2 


57-b 


11. 


37-5 


61.0 


2.1 


36.9 


53-3 


12.5 


! 33.2 


5L4 


13.7 



The same authority also furnishes a comparative summary of the 
mean temperature at some of the principal cities of the country 
during the years 1885 and 1886. These figures are taken from the 
official reports to the Department at Washington : 





1885. 


1886. 




3 

u 




ft 
< 


6 


s 

3 


<— > 


3 
g, 

< 


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as 


ft 
< 




c 
3 
•— > 




1/1 

- 

< 


Atlantic City, 


37.6 


38.6 


47-o 


s8. 7 


66.4 


70.6 


71.5 


38.1 


48.0 


56.0 


65-7 


72 2 


71.4 


Boston, Mass., 


3 I -°j33 


5 


42.7 


53.8 


66.O 


68.0 


68.3 


33-7 


47-7 


56.2 


63.1 


70.8 


67.7 


Chicago, 111., 


27-7! 34 


2 


44-3 


56.7 


65.O 


69.2 


68.8 


36. i 


49.1 


57° 


66.0 


71.4 


72.4 


Jacksonville, Fla., 


62.1 66 


8 


68.7 


70-5 


76.9 


82.9 




59-9 


66.5 


75-8 


80.7 


80.9 




New Vork 


35-i ! 37 


S 


47.6 


S8.8 


68.7 


701 


71-5 


36.9 


50.3 


58 5 


65.6 


72.9 


71.0 


Philadelphia, Pa., 


403 4i 


5 


48.7;6l.3 


70.5 


71.8 




40 


53-4 


60.9 


68.6 


74.6 




Washington City, 


40.9 42 


2 


50.9 64.41 72.5 


74.2 


74.2 


42.0 55-5 


62.1 69.9 73 9 73.1 



A well-known physician of Baltimore, Dr. J. T. King, says : 
" The geological peculiarity of the island is one of the agents that 
contribute to the remarkable healthfulness of Atlantic City at all 
seasons of the year. There is no indigenous or spontaneous vege- 



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tation upon the island. The only growth to be seen is the arbo- 
real embellishments of the avenues and lawns— sylvan contribu- 
tions from the forests of the mainland. No stagnant pools or 
sloughs mar or disfigure the facial lineaments of the island, and 
there is no malarial or miasmatic emanation or effluvium to offend 
the senses or to affect its perfect hygiene." 

Several elements combine to produce the tonic effect of the sea- 
air, the first of which is the presence of a large amount of ozone— 




COTTAGE OF WILLIAM C HOUSTON, NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE. 

the stimulating, vitalizing principle of the atmosphere. Ozone 
has a tonic, healing, and purifying power, that increases as the air 
is taken into the lungs. It strengthens the respiratory organs, and 
in stimulating them helps the whole system. It follows naturally 
that the blood is cleansed and revivified, tone is given to the 
stomach, the liver is excited to healthful action, and the whole 
body feels the benefit. Perfect health is the inevitable result, if 
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there be enough of the constitution left to build upon ; and even 
confirmed invalids are often materially benefited by seaside life, 
and existences that would be utterly miserable are by sojourns here 
made not only tolerable but often pleasant and happy. Another 
reason is that the atmosphere, being denser at the sea-level than at 
more elevated points, contains, in a given space, a larger amount 
of oxygen ; while still another is that, as a larger portion of the 
breeze comes from the sea, the air contains but a small amount of 
the deleterious products of decaying vegetable and animal matter. 
The saline particles held in suspension in the atmosphere, the 
"dust of the ocean," enter the system through the lungs, and aid 
in the tonic effect experienced at the seashore. But whatever may 
be the cause, the effect is undoubted. Few who visit Atlantic City 
fail to experience a marked improvement in appetite, while to 
many there comes such a feeling of drowsiness that the most excit- 
ing story will fail to keep them awake between the hours of three 
and six in the afternoon. This is a sure sign that the nerves are 
being well rested and fed. It is a great thing to get an abundant 
supply of nerve food without the use of medicines, the falsely 
stimulating effect of which must be followed by a corresponding 
exhaustion. 



CLIMATE BETTER THAN MEDICINE. 

Atlantic City, as is well known, is wholly surrounded by un- 
mixed salt water, besides having six miles of salt meadows behind 
it, and rests upon abed of 'dry sand — therein fulfilling the two con- 
ditions laid down by Professor Loomis as essential to immunity from 
malaria. No considerable fresh water stream empties within many 
miles of it. " My personal experience of the place, dating back 
eighteen years," says Dr. Reed, " affords strong evidence against 
the probability of malaria originating here. In my practice among 
invalid visitors, I see a great deal of malaria. It is one of the dis- 
eases for which visitors come here, particularly in winter; and when 
they remain long enough, they do not often come in vain." 

It is with climates as with medicines — trustworthy evidence as 
to what they have accomplished is the most valuable. With regard 
to nervous, rheumatic, gouty, dyspeptic, and various other chronic 
ailments which are usually found to be benefited here in the sum- 



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mer, equal benefit may be expected 
in the winter. Convalescents from 
acute disease, or from surgical 
operations, nearly always improve 
remarkably upon being removed to 
Atlantic City from the large cities. 

" As to diseases of the respiratory 
organs," says Dr. Reed, "I have 
had personal knowledge of many 
patients suffering from various forms 
of such affections who have made 
trials of this climate in winter. 
The cases have, as a rule, improved, 
some of them very decidedly, though 
there have been exceptions. The 
consumptives who were in the in- 
cipient stage, and those even in 
the advanced stages where the de- 
structive process has been advanc- 
ing slowly, have often experienced 
very marked improvement. In a 
considerable proportion — about 
one-fourth — of the cases of these 
latter classes, the disease has been 
apparently arrested, and some of 
them seem to be cured." 

It is a significant fact that pneu- 
monia and bronchitis are of infre- 
quent origin here, and when they 
do occur the patients almost in- 
variably recover. Upon this point 
Dr. Reed's experience as a resident 
physician enables him to speak very 
positively. He has not known an 
uncomplicated attack of either dis- 
ease to prove fatal. 

To another highly respected 
physician, Dr. James Darrach, of 
Germantown, belongs the honor 



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of having relieved many patients suffering from hay fever and 
autumnal catarrh, by sending them to Atlantic City. The late Rev. 
H. W. Beecher and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes had a witty cor- 
respondence on the subject of hay fever a few years since, in 
which the latter declared that there was no cure for the disease 
"but six feet of gravel." Atlantic City, however, has answered 
back that it may be alleviated. 



BETWEEN THE SEASONS. 

The month of May, by many considered the loveliest of all the 
year, divides the spring and the summer seasons at Atlantic City, 
if there be any division. The spring guests, however, often linger 
through May, and it is sometimes difficult to tell where the spring 
season ends and the summer season begins. About the last of May 
the large summer hotels and boarding-houses begin to prepare for 
the coming of the summer guests. When the month of roses 
comes the register of the summer hotel lies open upon the spacious 
desk ; the clerk is bland and gracious — his opportunity to be 
imperiously dignified and lofty not having arrived ; servants are 
busy with mop and bucket, putting things in order ; scores of 
chairs are ranged to the right, left, and front of you with not a 
vestige of a struggle to get " position ;" smiling Bonifaces greet 
the advent of each guest with an earnest welcome and confiden- 
tially advise him to select his room early, lest disappointment 
should follow ; the horse-cars plod to and from the Inlet without 
grave friction on the bell-punch ; and even the policeman looks 
gracious as he dreams of the " tips" to flow in his lap when the 
tide of humanity turns seaward. In a few weeks all this will be 
transformed into bustle and animation ; the diamond of the ten- 
dollar-a-week clerk will sparkle as never before ; the houses will be 
full and some of the guests fuller, and the summer season will be 
at its height. 



Rummer Days by ttie £ea. 



TTTHE development of Atlantic City as a winter resort has not 

I been more marked than has been its progress as a place of 
Jb permanent abode for those who cater to the necessities of 
the tens of thousands who migrate hither in summer time. Start- 
ing in 1854, the growth of the city for some years was slow and it 
was known only as a place for summer recreation, lasting from the 
first of July until the first of September. From September to 
June the number of inhabitants was considerably less than one 
thousand. Now the permanent all-the-year-round population is 
about ten thousand, while the summer inhabitants often exceed 
seventy-five thousand. 

Little did the few residents of 1854 dream that this lonely 
island, so inaccessible, so remote, would become in a compara- 
tively brief period the site of a beautiful city by the sea, with 
broad avenues lined with handsome cottages, thronged with splen- 
did equipages and a moving multitude representing the culture, 
intelligence, and wealth of a metropolitan people — the permanent 
home of a large and growing population, and the favorite pleasure 
resort of many thousands. The building of the Camden and 
Atlantic Railroad from Philadelphia to the island has made this 
once isolated spot blossom as the rose, and in its popularity, its 
accommodations, its many excellencies and varied attractions, it is 
ahead of the oldest places of the kind in America. 

The first-class hotels and numerous boarding-houses are over- 
taxed in summer time to accommodate the throng of visitors who 
come from every direction, north, east, south, and west. During 
the past year cottages have sprung up with a rapidity and in 
numbers without a parallel in the history of Atlantic City, or of 
any other resort in the world. These cottages find occupants in 
the spring, most of whom remain until October. 

The solid character of its patrons from the better elements of 
society, the quiet, homelike aspect of the place, the natural 
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scenery and charms peculiar to itself, conspire to make Atlantic 
City the very ideal of a summer resort. Art and design have 
added to its attractions, beautifying it with broad avenues, with 
walks bordered with trees and with gardens whose fragrance unites 




BOARDWALK AND OCEAN PIER. 



with the cool breeze of the ocean to delight and refresh those who 
seek rest and recreation at the seashore. 

Life at Atlantic City in summer is buoyant, gay, and attractive, 
and draws many thousands to enjoy the hospitality of its people. 
The hotels are often taxed to their utmost to accommodate the 



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number of arrivals. As many as thirty thousand people have been 
known to arrive here in a single day, and the aggregate number 
of guests at one time has exceeded seventy-five thousand. The sum- 
mer " rush and crush " reaches its height about the first of August, 
when the city itself puts on its gayest attire. Then it is that hops 
are held almost nightly at the principal hotels, and the boardwalk 
is transformed into a mass of surging humanity — so thick, indeed, 
that the crowd merges over on the sides, and the strand, either 
from choice or necessity, becomes an equally popular promenade. 
The current moves constantly on in both directions, the rule of the 
road — keep to the right — being strictly adhered to. When one is 
tired or wants to study humanity, there is no place equal to the 
boardwalk. As a study of some of the most unique phases or 
human character, a stroll along this crowded thoroughfare is worth 
a year of ordinary life. Its infinite variety preserves it from 
monotony, and never does it present the same aspect two days in 
succession. 

Seated in one of the many cozy pavilions which line the board- 
walk, one may find rest and pleasure on a summer evening gazing 
upon the broad ocean, upon which the dark shadows of night are 
beginning to fall. The stars twinkle in the sky above, the waves 
chant a weird song as they break upon the strand, the moon rises in 
its glory, lighting up the dark waters, and the ear is lulled with the 
gentle murmur of the surf. It is an opportunity for thoughtful 
meditation or melancholy pleasure, according to the mood of the 
individual. 

Many delightful, dreamy hours may be spent upon the strand 
when the weather is pleasant. The long stretch of sandy beach 
and the roar of the surf may be uninteresting to some upon a 
gloomy day, but when the sun is shining all dreariness disappears, 
the ocean sparkles like a huge diamond, and groups of people 
wander along the strand or scoop out convenient hollows, in which 
they will lie for hours, enjoying the warm sun-bath and inhaling 
ozone at every breath. Bevies of girls dressed in dainty costumes 
are scattered about on the sand, and ripples of laughter come to 
one's ears. Far out upon the horizon a faint trace of smoke may 
be seen ascending from a passing steamer, while above the horizon 
and sometimes just beyond the surf the white wings of swift-sail- 
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Nothing could add to the quiet beauty of this scene or heighten the 
pleasure of those for whom it is created. 

From morning until evening the beach is a perfect paradise for 
children. The youngsters take to digging in the sand and pad- 
dling in the water by natural instinct, having unlimited opportu- 
nities for both. Every day they throw up fortifications, build 
mounds, and excavate subterranean caverns, and every night the 
tide washes away all their labor and leaves a soft, smooth surface 
for another day's toil. 

The pleasures of the surf bath bring multitudes to Atlantic City 
during the summer months, and bathing here attains a popularity 
unknown to more northern resorts, the near approach of the 
Gulf Stream to this point increasing the temperature of the water 
to a delightful degree, and taking from it the bitter chill from 
which so many would-be bathers shrink. At the fashionable hours 
of bathing, from eleven to one, the beach is crowded with thou- 
sands of merry bathers, whose shouts and laughter mingle with the 
roar of the surf, while the strand and boardwalk are lined with 
interested spectators and promenaders. The scene at this time is 
as animated as the streets of a continental city on a fete day. On 
a moonlight evening, when the beach is filled with equipages, and 
the boardwalk thronged with merry promenaders, then, indeed, 
Atlantic City presents a picture of delightful existence, fairer than 
any vision of a midsummer night's dream. 

For sailing under most favorable conditions, the Inlet affords 
ample opportunity, and good boats ably manned by veteran sea- 
men are always to be had at a fair price. The Inlet is the favorite 
resort of the lovers of those twin sports, yachting and fishing. A 
large fleet of handsome yachts is always riding at anchor in wait- 
ing for parties desirous of a sail over the briny waters, or of in- 
dulging in that exciting sport, deep-sea fishing. The water is 
fairly alive with game fish, such as sea bass, flounders, weak fish, 
king fish, porgies, croakers, snapping mackerel, blue fish, and 
kindred varieties. The most delicious oysters are to be had here, 
fresh from their native beds, and with an appetizing flavor un- 
known to one who has never eaten them before the moss of their 
shells is dry. The Thoroughfare, which is as smooth as a moun- 
tain lake, with many picturesque surroundings, is another favorite 
resort, especially for the ladies. It abounds in crabs, which are 



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caught in great numbers. Those who prefer steam to sails as a 
motor can be accommodated also, and the few whose stomach 
dread the heaving billows may eschew both and idly sit and watch 
the fleet of gayly decked boats as they dance in the dim distance 
with their precious freight, their blood meanwhile tingling with 
the ozone blown from the sea, or the commoner kind which some 
endeavor to suck through a. straw. 

In addition to the customary weekly hops at the principal hotels, 
Atlantic City is visited during the summer season by some of the 
best musical and dramatic talent, and concerts and entertainments 




LIGHTHOUSE. 

are given at various places of amusement. These, in connection 
with the varied and ever-recurring pleasures natural to the resort, 
present a constant round of enjoyment. A feature of Atlantic 
City is the open-air concert gardens. At first thought one would 
perhaps not consider these places among the special attractions, 
but the estimation in which they are held elsewhere must not be 
the standard of judgment here. They are conducted with order 
and decorum. Many people who never venture into them at home 
visit them here in the cool of the evening, and enjoy the excellent 
music which is provided. Solid business men of irreproachable 



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character, distinguished people from all parts of the country, as 
well as church-going people, are frequently seen in these places. 

At Albrecht's Garden, of which W. Albrecht is proprietor, in- 
teresting entertainments are provided, and the garden is managed 
with a strict regard for propriety. In addition to the musical 
attractions, there are select concerts and operatic entertainments 
during the summer months, and the audiences are usually quite large. 
Connected with Albrecht's is a large banqueting hall for socie- 
ties or excursionists, which will seat six hundred and fifty persons. 
This hall has a polished floor suitable for dancing, and is used for 
hops in the summer season and for balls and roller skating in the 
winter. 

At the lower end of the city there are two hotels, which are 
specially designed for excursionists — that is, persons who come 
down to spend a day at the seashore. This class aggregates many 
thousands. The houses are provided with well-appointed restau- 
rants, pleasant parlors, broad piazzas, and spacious ball-rooms. 
Such is the popularity of Atlantic City that the excursion houses 
are often engaged in advance of the season by parties who know 
and prefer this resort above any other within reach. 

Starting from the vicinity of the Excursion House, where congre- 
gate the photographers, the itinerant vendors of views, curiosities, 
edibles, and trinkets, the weighing-machine men, and the test-your- 
lungs men — passing these and many other things to amuse, and 
following the boardwalk in the direction of the Inlet, the pedestrian 
comes to the lighthouse, of which some data is given in the closing 
chapter of this book. It is situated at the northeastern end of the 
island, near the entrance to Absecon Inlet. 

From the balcony of the lighthouse a grand panorama of sea and 
land is presented. We behold there what the world looks like to 
a sea-gull ; and a grand waste of waters it seems, indeed. Look- 
ing north and west, across the extended miles of salt meadows, with 
their winding thoroughfares and bays, one sees the lines of pretty 
buildings and fertile farms of the mainland. Stretching to the 
southwest the beautiful city, with its grand hotels, its extensive 
boarding-houses, its hundreds of private cottages embowered in 
shrubbery, and the long lines of shade-trees skirting the side- 
walks, presents a lovely picture ; while beyond, to the east and 
south, the ocean stretches into the distant horizon. 



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Summer days by the sea would be incomplete without a visit to 
«ach of the three great piers, whose surface reaches far out over the 
ocean, and upon which one may walk and watch the waves as they 
roll in, and perchance " lay hold upon the mane of the sea." As 
the boardwalk is the promenade, the centre of life and interest, 
over which everybody strolls in search of exercise or amusement, 
so are the piers places of interest, which every one should visit, if 
only for a few breaths of the very purest and freshest of ocean air. 




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HEADING FOR THE INLET. 



The largest of these three structures is the new Iron Pier, which 
extends a thousand feet into the ocean from the foot of Massa- 
chusetts Avenue. The width of this pier is thirty feet, widening 
at the centre pavilion to one hundred feet, and at the outer pavil- 
ion to one hundred and forty feet. The pillars and all the works 
below the floor are iron, the former being sunk into the sand to a 
depth of ten feet. The floor is ten feet above high-water line. 
The outer pavilion is sufficiently spacious to hold an audience of 
two thousand people. The cost of the entire structure was sixty- 
two thousand dollars. 

Applegate's Pier, at the foot of Tennessee Avenue, is nearly seven 
hundred feet in length, and was finished in the spring of 1884 at 
a cost of over twenty-five thousand dollars. Before it was finished 



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it stood the test of the severe storm of January 8th and 9th, 1884, 
and since then it has baffled old Boreas and Neptune on more than 
one occasion. Though built upon the sand, it still stands as solid 
as a rock. Applegate's Double-Deck Pier is a great resort for 
boardwalk promenaders in summer-time. Thousands resort to it 
to enjoy the delightful ocean breezes and find relief from the heat, 
which sometimes becomes uncomfortable in the built-up portions 




THE NEW IRON PIER. 



of the city. Above the upper deck and near the centre of the pier 
the owner has erected what he calls the Lovers' Pavilion, where 
spoony couples are wont to resort to escape the gaze of the madding 
crowd. It has been estimated that as many as one hundred wed- 
ding engagements are consummated in this pavilion every summer 
season. During July and August first-class minstrel performances 
are given upon this pier every evening under the management of 
that well-known middleman, Mr. E. N. Slocum. 

The Howard Ocean Pier, at the foot of Kentucky Avenue, is the 
oldest of the three piers. It is six hundred feet long and has an 



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extensive pavilion at the outer end, where select hops and excellent 
dramatic or operatic entertainments are held. 

The pavilions of these piers afford an unobstructed view of the 
entire beach, the bathers, and the limitless expanse of water stretch- 
ing away to the ocean's horizon. Beneath us, deep down in the 
clear waters, the finny inhabitants are as busy in their element as 
we are in ours, although they are probably not looking for their 
lost nervous energy. 

Life at Atlantic City during the summer is in one aspect without 
restraint. Coming from every part of the land and from every 
walk in life, the crowd must necessarily be a motley one, but there 
is none of that "respect of persons" which is sometimes seen in 
the churches. The man with a " gold ring, in goodly apparel," - 
is not considered one whit better than the " poor man in vile rain- 
ment ;" indeed, appearances are so deceptive that it would never 
be safe to judge of the size of a man's bank account by the clothes 
he has on — especially if it be a bathing. suit. Men whose talents 
have made them famous throughout the land — judges, lawyers, and 
ministers— arrayed in a suit of blue and white, mingle daily with 
the other bathers, ignorant of who they are and regardless of their 
social standing. It is no uncommon sight to see men eminent in 
their callings busily engaged in scooping up bucketsful of sand for 
children whom they chance to meet upon the beach, or aiding 
them in their search for shells after a receding tide. Sedate bach- 
elors and prudish old maids not infrequently take part in such 
diversions as these, and, viewing the scenes from the calm of a 
pavilion, one cannot help thinking that the intellects and the 
characters thus unbent, and finding a share in the enjoyments of 
childhood, appear to greater advantage by the relaxation. Year 
after year, summer after summer, this strange commingling of the 
young and the old, the high and the low, the rich and the poor,, 
the grave and the gay, goes on in Atlantic City ; and so until the 
end of time, generation after generation, the charmed voice of the 
sea will draw men to its sands and to its surf. From the plains of 
the South, from the wide expanse of the West, and from the bleak r 
gray rim of the North, men, women, and children will come and 
go, girdling our coast with joy and sorrow through the twelve 
months — months which make possible the winter's comfort and the 
summer's pleasure. 



Water Supply and Drainage. 



*TfP TLANTIC CITY now has a two-fold water supply. Nearly 
*foy every house has a cemented cistern or wooden tank in 
j which water distilled from the clouds is preserved pure 

and sweet for use when required. When carefully kept, and 
•especially when filtered, rain water is entirely reliable, and usually 
affords an adequate supply for drinking and culinary purposes. 

But water-works of the most elaborate character were built, and 
spring water introduced from the mainland, seven miles distant, in 
June, 1882. A standpipe one hundred and thirty-five feet high, 
having a capacity of five hundred thousand gallons, insures at all 
times an abundant supply for every purpose, including the sprink- 
ling of streets and extinguishing of fires. 

This place promises to be hereafter the best drained city on the 
Atlantic coast. Years ago provision was made for getting rid of 
the surface water, and since the compulsory filling up of low lots, 
there has been little ground for complaint in this respect. All 
garbage has long been and still is removed daily in closely covered 
barrels. Other refuse and excreta have for some years past been 
stored temporarily in carefully constructed vaults with excellent 
ventilating arrangements, and removed at frequent intervals beyond 
the city limits during the latter part of the night by the odorless 
excavating apparatus. An improved system of underground sewer- 
age, adopted by the Board of Health and City Council after a very 
careful study of various rival plans, is now in successful operation. 

THE IMPROVED SEWERAGE SYSTEM. 

Upon the subject of drainage the same authority from whom we 
have already quoted (Dr. Reed) says : 

With the continued growth of Atlantic City and the intro- 
duction of extensive water-works, underground sewerage became a 
necessity. Years previously numerous conduits had been provided 
for carrying off the surface-water, while the raising of the level of 

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the streets and adjacent properties, and compulsory rilling of low 
lots, had further improved the surface-drainage. The one thing 
needful remaining was to make better provision for disposing of 
laundry-water, kitchen-slops, and human excreta. After studying 
various plans and sending committees even as far as Pullman, Illi- 
nois, to investigate the practical value of pumping-stations and 
sewage-utilization, the authorities adopted for Atlantic City what 
is known as the West system, and contracted with the Improved 
Sewerage and Sewage-Utilization Company of New York to put it 
in operation. 

Briefly stated, this system comprises a pumping-station and 
reservoir with deeply laid sewers converging to it, and filter-beds 
situated at a considerable distance from the well, out on the salt- 
meadows. 

The reservoir is placed on the edge of the meadows, next that 
side of the town which is farthest removed from the ocean and the 
hotels, being half a mile to a mile distant from the latter. It is a 
walled pit, cemented on both the inside and outside, thirty feet in 
diameter and twenty feet deep. Connected with it is a ventilating 
shaft seventy-five feet high. The main sewer, which empties into 
the bottom of this well, is a cylindrical iron pipe twenty inches in 
diameter. Connecting with this is a system of sub-mains and 
laterals of iron or heavy glazed terra-cotta pipe, the best product of 
the Trenton works. These are respectively twenty, fifteen, and ten 
inches in diameter, according to location. All the larger ones are 
laid below the level of the ground-water, upon a substantial 
wooden support or bed. 

By thus excavating to an extraordinary depth and conducting 
the main to the bottom of a well twenty feet below the ordinary 
level of the town, the necessary grade was obtained to render the 
sewers self-cleansing. 

The sewage is conveyed by gravity to the well or reservoir, and 
is forced thence by two powerful steam-pumps, having a joint capa- 
city of upward of sixteen hundred gallons per minute, through 
an iron £>ipe to the filter-beds. The liquid, after emerging from 
these, is only slightly discolored, and, by extra care and frequent 
changing of the filtering material, it has been found practicable to 
render it clear and pure enough even to drink. This may seem 
incredible, but Parkes, in his Practical Hygiene, quotes Mr. Dyke 

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as claiming for a similar system of sewage utilization with filtration, 
at Merthyr-Tydvil, that the " effluent water was stated to be pure 
enough to be used for drink." 

There is absolutely no odor at the well, not even when one stands 
upon the floor inside with the trap-door open. The reason is that 
the sewage empties there in a fresh condition, before having had 
time to decompose ; then, even if gases had formed, the high ven- 




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COTTAGE OF THOMAS C. HAND, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. 

tilating shaft, adjoining the well and connected with the fire of the 
engine-room, causes a powerful draught in that direction. A slight 
odor is detectable at the filter-beds, but this never reaches any in- 
habited part of the city proper. If there ever should be sufficient 
smell created by the process to reach even that portion of-the town 
nearest to it, a prompt and thoroughly effectual remedy, which 
could be enforced at any time, would be to compel the company 
to move the filter-beds half a mile, or even a mile, farther away. 
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flat plains with no convenient water-course into which sewage could 
be discharged had been previously solved at various places in 
Europe by the use of pumping-stations and some form of sewage 
utilization. The model city of Pullman, Illinois, a suburb of Chi- 
cago, was the first in this country to attempt such a plan, and it is 
entirely satisfied with the result. Atlantic City had even greater 
difficulties to overcome, on account of the peculiar character of the 
underlying ground, but it has been demonstrated that sewers of any 
desired material can be laid even here at any required depth. 




Distances from Atlantic City. 



Miles. 

Altoona, Pa 297 

Albany, N. Y., 293 

Baltimore, Md 158 

Boston, Mass 380 

Bethlehem, Pa 115 

Bedford Springs, Pa 314 

Beatrice, Neb 1,497 

Burlington, N. J 79 

Chester, Pa 74 

Carlisle, Pa 186 

Carrollton, Mo 1,271 

Cresson Springs, Pa 312 

Chambersburg, Pa 217 

Chicago, 111 883 

Cincinnati, Ohio 727 

Cleveland, Ohio 564 

Charleston, S. C 846 

Columbus, Ohio 608 

Dovlestown, Pa 93 

Delaware Water Gap, N.J 152 

Downingtown, Pa 92 

Detroit, Mich 743 

Denver, Col i,95° 

Easton,Pa 112 

Erie, Pa 5° 6 

Elmira, N. Y 343 

Fort Wayne, Ind 735 

Gettysburg, Pa 195 

Greensburg, Pa 382 

Harrisburg, Pa 165 

Huntingdon, Pa 263 

Indianapolis, Ind 782 

Ithaca, N.Y 418 

Johnstown,Pa 336 

Kansas City, Mo i,337 

Lancaster, Pa , 132 

Lincoln, Neb 1,447 

Louisville, Ky 9°5 

Media, Pa 73 

Mauch Chunk, Pa 149 

Milwaukee, Wis 9 2 3 

Montgomery, Ala 1 ,097 

Montreal, Can 649 

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Miles. 

Norristown, Pa ^. 77 

New York City, N. Y 150 

Newark, N.J 140 

New Brunswick, N. J ..„ 117 

Niagara Falls, N. Y 518 

New Orleans, La 1,474 

New Haven, Conn 226 

Newport, R. 1 316 

Ogdensburg, N. Y 544 

Omaha, Neb 1,380 

Philadelphia, Pa 60 

Pittsburgh, Pa 414 

Pottstown, Pa 100 

Pottsville, Pa 153 

Portland, Me 491 

Quebec, Canada. 821 

Quincy, 111 1,114 

Reading,Pa 118 

Rochester, N. Y 437 

Richmond, Va , 314 

San Francisco, Cal. 3,280 

St. Joseph, Mo 1,397 

St. Louis, Mo 1,063 

Salt Lake City, Utah 2,434 

St. Paul, Minn i,334 

Scranton, Pa 223 

Savannah, Ga 827 

Toledo, Ohio 675 

Trenton, N.J 90 

Tallahassee, Fla 1,160 

Unionto wn, Pa 420 

Union City, Pa 479 

Utica,N. Y 386 

Valley Forge, Pa 83 

Virginia City, Nev 2,844 

Williamsport, Pa 258 

West Chester, Pa 91 

Wilmington, Del 88 

Washington, D. C 198 

Watkins Glen, N. Y 359 

Xenia, Ohio 663 

York,Pa 153 

Zanesville,Ohio 5^° 



jiooXt Line, and trigger. 



1\T OWHERE else along the coast are there greater facilities for 
I \1 sport with the rod and the gun than in the vicinity of 
Jb Atlantic City. The bays and thoroughfares are a vast water 
preserve, with nature for their keeper. From Grassy Bay and 
Little Egg Harbor on the north to Great Egg Harbor and Lake's 
Bay on the south, from the wreck of the Cassandra to the wreck of 
the Diverty, fish of large size and fowl of many kind are found in 
abundance. The thoroughfares, sounds, and bays teem with millions 
of the finny tribe at certain seasons of the year, while the woods on the 
mainland, or " off-shore," if we may use the local vernacular, are 
splendid feeding grounds for quail in the fall months. The meadows 
also abound with duck, geese, plover, snipe, marlin, curlew, and 
mud hens. Nowhere can the hunter or angler go amiss. It is 
generally safe to carry the gun or the rod, for the fruits thereof will 
amply repay the drudgery. The waters of the sea and bays and 
the outlying marshes and woodland contain enough to keep the 
fisherman and hunter in keen quest after their game. 

A favorite feeding ground for the robin-breast, as they are gener- 
ally called by city gunners, or robin-snipe, as they are known to 
the shore guides, is the sod beach on Brigantine. An old hunter 
says that for fifteen years he has shot them on this spot from 
behind a blind near Smith's Brigantine House before daybreak, 
catching a bead on their nimble bodies only when the white comb 
of a breaker flashed in the background. 

Curlews, both of the long bill and crooked bill varieties, are in 
good flight in the spring and fall of the year. The latter are called 
on the shore horse-foot curlews, from a habit they have of eating 
the eggs of the king or horse-shoe crab. 

Every variety of beach bird can be bagged in the spring, if the 
sportsman is speedily on the ground, and a few straggling birds 
may be killed as late as the 15th of June. The gunning is equally 

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good in the fall, when the birds make their annual flight southward. 
September is generally a good month to test the sportsman's mettle 
and skill, and, with perseverance, he is sure to return laden with 
small game. Nor will he need any soothing syrup to woo his 
natural rest ; his peregrinations will bring him both appetite, 
fatigue, and stamina. Woodcock may be killed in the month of 
July, upland plover after August ist, and mud hens after August 
25th. For extra sport in wing shot in the spring and fall the 




WILD DUCK IN GRASSY BAY. 



sportsman must visit Grassy Bay, which is convenient of access by 
yachts from the Inlet, where wild duck and geese are found in 
superior numbers. For outside fishing a trip to either of the sunken 
wrecks will give the angler fine sport in bass, weak fish, and sheeps- 
head fishing. 

These sports of fin and feather are not only delightful in them- 
selves, but they serve the better purpose of aiding largely in restor- 
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of roughing it; and the invalid, if strong enough to bear the slight 
fatigue, will speedily find relief, if not a cure, for the ailments to 
which his flesh is heir. Good digestion, active nutrition, and 
sound sleep restore the nervous system, and these are largely ob- 
tained by a moderate indulgence in those exhilarating sports, gun- 
ning and fishing. Days and weeks may be spent in cruising about, 
through the bays and thoroughfares, with never a flagging or failing 
of interest, or lack of occupation which is at the same time enjoy- 
ment. And while the bronze deepens on the cheek, and the pulse 
bounds more vigorously, and the step grows more elastic, there is 
no thought of yearning for other 
scenes, but rather of frequent regret ^^Z^ 
that the summer vacation 
must so soon end. 

For the in- 
formation — 




=^s?- r,> 



TROLLING FOR BLUE FISH. 



of those 
who may be 
visiting the shore 
for the first time in 
pursuit of birds, we state 
that complete outfits, with 
the exception of guns, ammu- 
nition, and lunch, are furnished by the guides, viz. : boats, decoys, 
blinds, etc. The usual charge for one person is $3 per day, 
and for two $4 per day. Parties intending to prolong their 
shooting trips for several days or more can charter a yacht at 
$2 per day, in addition to the cost of a guide, who in this case 
will charge $2.50 per day. A party of four will be at a cost 
of about $2 per day for each person, excluding provisions and in- 
cluding the services of two guides, which number will be required, 
as the shooting is mostly done behind blinds, one of which will not 
hide properly more than three persons. The guns generally used 
for beach bird shooting are ten bores with No. 6 shot, forwillet and 
curlew, and No. 8 for gray backs, calicoes, and robin snipe, and 
Nos. 2, 3, and 4 for ducks. 



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The following information will be of permanent value to those 
who may wish to go in quest of any of the varieties of fish or fowl 
which are found here at certain seasons of the year : 

FISH. 

Blue Fish. — Appear about the middle of May ; leave in 
October. 

Sheep's Head. — Appear about the ioth of June ; leave in 
October. 

Weak Fish. — Appear in May; leave in October. 

Striped Bass. — Found in the rivers on the coast the entire 
winter; more plentiful in summer. 

White Perch. — Come early and remain late; chiefly found in 
brackish waters and in rivers. 

Black Fish. — Bite from ist of June, and cease ist of October. 

Sea Bass. — Taken ist of July until October. 

Kingfish, or Barb. — Come in July and remain until October. 

Flounders (Summer). — Oblong in shape; come in June; stay 
until October. 

Flounders (Winter). — Flounder proper ; come in October ; 
leave in May. 

Porgies. — Abundant along the coast after July. 

Spot, or Goody. — Summer fish. 

Codfish. — Taken late in autumn and in winter. 

FOWL. 

Wild Geese and Brant. — Arrive about the ist of October and 
remain until the last of March. Very plentiful. 

Black Ducks. — Remain all summer. 

Broad Bills. — Arrive about the 15th of October. 

Cub Heads, Dippers, and Red Heads. — Habits similar to 
broad bills. Arrive in October and remain until April ist. 

Gray Ducks and Teal. — Arrive September 1st, leave in No- 
vember ; come again for a short time in spring on their northern 
migration. 

English Snipe. — Make their appearance about ist of April, 
remain but a short time, go North, and return in October on their 
way South. 

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Come about the 1st of May, make short stay, return in July, and 
remain till October. 

Willet. — Willets remain and breed in salt marshes. 

Plover. — The several varieties arrive in May; remain during 
the summer. 

Tell-Tales. — Arrive in May and pass northward ; return in 
autumn for a short stay. 

But remember that there are in New Jersey certain enactments 
which must be respected. They are known as "Game Laws." 
They prohibit persons who are gunning for geese, brant, or ducks, 
from placing their decoys further off from the edge of the marsh, 
island, bar, bank, blind, or ice than three rods distance. All per- 
sons are prohibited from pursuing any fowl after night with a 
light. This class of sportsmen are called "pot hunters," and are 
held in disrepute. by legitimate sportsmen. 




]YIortuary statistics. 



ONE of the best evidences of the salubrity of the climate of 
Atlantic City is its low death-rate. The statistics given in 
the table below are taken from the official records of the 
various State Boards of Health. The deaths in Atlantic City dur- 
ing 1886 were as follows: Non-resident visitors, 107; residents, 
102. 

The population of Atlantic City in 1880 was five thousand five 
hundred, and in 1885 it was eight thousand, an increase of forty- 
five per cent, in five years, or at the rate of nine per cent, a year. 
At this rate of increase the population of the place at the close of 
1886 was above nine thousand, though a careful estimate, based 
upon other sources of information, places it at ten thousand. 
Admitting, however, that the population was not more than nine 
thousand, the record of one hundred and two deaths during the 
year shows the death rate to be 11. 3 to each thousand of popula- 
tion. The percentage of deaths during preceding years was about 
the same. 

As a basis of comparison, we give the following table of the 
mortality of various cities of the United States : 

Rate per 1000. Rate per IOOO. 

New York 24.93 Cleveland 16.72 

Philadelphia 17.96 Chicago 16.50 

Brooklyn 20.15 i Salt Lake City 14.00 

Buffalo 14.19 Jacksonville, Fla 13.07 

Rochester 16.24 Worcester, Mass 19.25 

Boston 21.53 i Cambridge, Mass '9-65 

Washington 26.58 Mobile, Ala 23.05 

Baltimore 21.53 Charleston 29.16 

Wilmington, Del 21.02 j Evansville, Ind 19.52 

Richmond, Va 18.40 | St. Louis 12.00 

Norfolk, Va 21. 19 

Milwaukee 14-35 

Cincinnati 17.23 



San Francisco 1580 

Plattsburgh, N. Y 25.00 

Concord, N. H 13.20 

New Haven 17-99 I New Orleans 50.17 

Hartford ,....16.67 Savannah 30.25 

Pittsburgh 21.16 Providence, R. 1 19.89 

Nashville, Tenn 23.11 Atlantic City 11.03 

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Atlantic City being a popular resort for invalids, especially those 
suffering from chronic diseases, the actual number of deaths within 
its limits is necessarily large. This is especially the case in sum- 
mer, when large numbers of infants suffering from diseases inci- 
dent to childhood at that season of the year are brought here, 
some of them in a dying condition when they arrive. In places 
like Atlantic City there are various institutions for the sick, where 
the death-rate is also large. There are at least three such institu- 
tions in this city. Moreover, many of our permanent residents 
are what physicians call "impaired lives" — persons with chest, 
rheumatic, nervous, or other troubles, who live here throughout the 
year on account of the relief which the climate affords. These 
are counted among the permanent residents in making up the 
death-rate, though they rightly belong to the non-residents. Suf- 
ficient is shown by the above table, however, to satisfy any one 
that Atlantic City has a death-rate much lower than that of any 
other city in the country. The well-ascertained healthfulness of 
this city has made it as much an invalid's as it is a tourist's resort. 
There is no limit to its popularity with the medical profession, who 
are almost unanimous in pronouncing it the best winter and sum- 
mer home for their patients. 




Institutions for the Afflicted. 



GURNEY COTTAGE. 

TTTHE Gurney Cottage, on Virginia Avenue below Pacific, was 
I the summer home of the late Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney 
^X_, from i860 until the time of her death, about eight years 
ago. Her whole life was occupied with deeds of charity, and 
though an influential member of the Society of Friends, she gave 
liberally to Christians of every name. Assisting in the organiza- 
tion of Sunday schools was her special pleasure, and the poor 
always found in her a friend. She enjoyed a personal acquaintance 
with many distinguished persons, and was a staunch friend of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, who, in a letter written a few months before his 
death, said he was "much indebted to the good Christian people 
of the country for their constant prayers and consolations, and to 
no one of them more than to Mrs. Gurney." 

Two years ago the Gurney Cottage was leased by the managers 
of the Friends' Asylum, at Frankford, Philadelphia, who con- 
verted it into a sanitarium for the treatment of nervous affections 
and mild forms of mental disease. Cases of nervous prostration, 
convalescents from acute brain disease, and those mild mental dis- 
orders needing isolation from former surroundings can here find a 
home for treatment free from unnecessary restraint, where medical 
care and skillful nursing produce the best results. 

The building is situated near the ocean, and has all the modern 
conveniences, including good sanitary arrangements. It is open 
all the year, is well heated, and is lighted by electricity. Twelve 
patients can be accommodated, both sexes being admitted. The 
establishment is presided over by a matron, and a sufficient number 
of nurses are employed to care for the patients. It is under the 
supervision of Dr. John C. Hall, Superintendent of the Friends' 
Asylum in Philadelphia, who visits the place every week, and in 
the interval the immediate care and treatment of the patients are 
confined to Dr. John E. Sheppard, of Atlantic City, who makes 
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daily visits to the institution. During the first eight months thirty 
patients were admitted, a number of whom were discharged as 
cured. The results of the treatment at the seashore, the Superin- 
tendent reports, have been thus far very satisfactory. The good 
effects of a change of air, the comparative freedom from restraint, 
and the home life, felt and appreciated by all, have had a marked 
effect upon the patients and contributed greatly to their recovery. 
Dr. Hall adds that his experience at Atlantic City proves the 
desirability of the method, and that it affords many advantages not 
to be found in the usual hospital treatment. 



MERCER MEMORIAL HOME. 

This institution, the corporate name of which is Seaside House 
for Invalid Women, was organized in 1878. 

Its object is to provide at the seashore a place where invalid 
women, of moderate means can spend a few weeks and have not 
only the comforts of a home, but also good nursing and the care 
of a physician, at a price which they are able to pay, but much 
below the actual cost. It differs from other seaside institutions for 
women, in that it is intended for invalids only, and in this respect 
it meets a want which has often been felt by those who come in 
contact with the masses of workingwomen in our large cities. 

The work of the institution was begun June 22d, 1878, in a little 
cottage with accommodations for fourteen patients. In February, 
1880, it was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. The capa- 
city of the little cottage was nearly doubled in 1881, in order to 
in some measure meet the demands made for admission. 

In 1884 the present building, at the corner of Ohio and Pacific 
Avenues, was erected, largely through the munificence of the late 
Mr. J. C. Mercer, of Philadelphia, who gave forty thousand dollars 
for the purpose. 

This building is one of the finest of its size in Atlantic City, and 
is provided with every convenience for the care of sick women. 
Its sanitary arrangements are as near perfect as they can be made. 
Besides sitting-rooms, bath-rooms, parlors, writing-room, dining- 
rooms, offices, linen-rooms, trunk-rooms, servants' rooms, and the 
like, there are fifty-eight bed-rooms, capable of accommodating 
seventy patients. These are neatly furnished, and each patient 



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has a comfortable spring-bed, with hair mattress. There are sixteen 
bed-rooms on the first floor, and an easy, inclined plane runs from 
this floor to the ground, so that those unable to walk can be wheeled 
from their bed-rooms to the beach. During the season of 1886 
more than six hundred invalid women were cared for in the insti- 
tution. 

The difference between the receipts from board of patients and 
the current expenses amounts to about three thousand dollars 
annually, and, as the whole income of the institution from invested 
funds is less than three hundred dollars, a very large portion of 




MERCER HOME. 



this deficit must be provided for by voluntary contributions. 
These will be thankfully received by any of the managers. The 
house is open to visitors every afternoon except Sunday. The 
attending physician is Dr. William H. Bennett, assisted by Dr. J. 
E. Sheppard. 



CHILDREN S SEASHORE HOUSE. 



This institution (the first of its kind in the United States) was 
opened in a small cottage in 1872. In July, 1883, it was re-opened 
in its present location, at the sea-end of Ohio Avenue, occupying 
what is now the main building. Numerous smaller buildings have 



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since been erected within the grounds by visitors at the different 
hotels, each bearing the name of the house by which it was erected. 
It now has accommodations for about one hundred children and 
twenty-six mothers. The object of the corporation is to maintain 
at the seashore an institution in which children of the poorer classes, 
suffering from non-contagious diseases or from debility incident to 
the hot weather and a crowded city, may have good nursing and 
medical care, without regard to creed, color, or nationality. 

Children over three years of age are cared for by competent 
nurses in the large, airy wards of the main building; and in order 
that those too young to be separated from their mothers may also 
be admitted, little cottages have been erected for the mothers 
almost upon the beach. One of them is assigned to each mother 
with a sick infant. She may also have one other child with her, 
and have for herself and children the exclusive use of the cottage, 
taking care of it and her children, but having her meals provided 
for her in the main building. A separate building, located imme- 
diately on the beach, is used for very serious cases needing closer 
attention and greater quiet than can be had otherwise. 

The children are under the care of a resident physician, a corps 
of nurses, and a matron, and the total charge, including board, 
washing, medical attendance, bathing, and, occasionally, driving 
or sailing, is not over three dollars per week. A number — limited 
by the means at the command of the managers — are received with- 
out charge. Applications for admission are made to an examining 
physician, who furnishes railroad tickets, provided at a reduced 
rate. 

No more worthy charity could appeal to the beneficence of those 
who are blessed with means. The resident physician is Dr. W. 
H. Bennett, assisted by Dr. John E. Sheppard, of Atlantic City. 
The House is open to visitors Tuesday and Friday mornings from 
half-past nine to half-past ten o'clock, and every afternoon from 
three to five o'clock. 



Longport and Chelsea. 



T ONGPORT and Chelsea bear much the same relation to 
I f Atlantic City that the numerous suburban villages bear to 
the two great cities of New York or Philadelphia. They are 
adjuncts and not rivals of the older and larger place. Longport is 
a collection of attractive homes below Atlantic City, and occupies 
the western end of the island, bordering on Great Egg Harbor 
Inlet. Its water advantages are unique. The ocean, the inlet, and 
the thoroughfare surge restlessly or wave placidly on three sides of 
it. The island narrows and is scarcely more than one square in 
width in the improved portion of Longport, rendering both bath- 
ing and fishing convenient. The ocean beach is broad, smooth, 
and level, making a fine promenade ground when the tide is out 
and safe bathing when the tide is in. Fish are abundant in the 
thoroughfare, and are caught steadily from the pier and break- 
waters, which accommodate and protect the shore at different 
angles. 

Mr. M. S. McCullough purchased the site of Longport, some two 
hundred and fifty acres, of Mr. James Long in 1882, and named the 
town, which he immediately laid out, in honor of the former owner. 
Improvements have gone on steadily. Broad streets have been made 
and graveled, a boardwalk to the length of ten squares has been built 
along the beach, railroad and telephoni z communication made with 
Atlantic City, and a post-office established by Mr. John Ober- 
holtzer. The wharfage is good, a couple of little steamers meeting 
trains and making regular trips to Ocean City and Somers' Point, 
thus affording a through route to those places from Philadelphia. 
Sail boats accommodate those who desire such recreation. 

The buildings of Longport are all first-class. Temperance and 

sanitary restrictions in the deeds possess attractions for those who 

summer there. The bearing of the place is literary rather than 

fashionable. Two resident authors, Professor J. P. Remington and 

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Mrs. S. L. Oberholtzer, have well-used libraries there. The former 
has written a number of standard medical and pharmaceutical works, 
while the latter is the author of several volumes of poetry and one 
or two works of fiction. The Agassiz Microscopical Society holds 
regular meetings throughout the season, while naturalists and sci- 
entists are among the summer guests. 

The Aberdeen, erected by M. S. McCullough, in 1884, and 
doubled in capacity in 1886, accommodates many guests, and is 
supplied with all modern conveniences, including hot sea-water 
baths. The cottages are diverse in architectural design. Those 
occupied yearly by their owners are Amos Dotterer's, John and S. 




MRS. OBERHOLTZER S COTTAGE. 

L. Oberholtzer's, Professor Joseph P. Remington's, Carrie Rem- 
ington's, and James Long's. Mr. Long's house was built in 1886, 
and is one of the most imposing homes along the Atlantic coast. 
Several pretty cottages belonging to different persons are rented 
for summer use. The Bay-View Club-House is a substantial struc- 
ture on Seventeenth Avenue, and is the headquarters of the Bay- 
View Club, which is composed of thirty Philadelphia gentlemen. 
New houses are regularly going up, The place has present comfort 
and steady growth. Mrs. H. M. Lawton, who prepares tastefully 
many varieties of marine algae, resides in Longport. 



A few squares below the lower limit of Atlantic City a select 
suburb, called Chelsea, is rapidly building. It claims to have the 
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best bathing-grounds on the island, and expects to be a second 
Elberon. It is laid out on a comprehensive scale, with wide streets 
and large lots, those fronting on Pacific Avenue being sixty feet 
wide and the corner ones sixty-five feet. Restrictions embodied 
in the deeds require all houses to be set back a good distance from 
the street, and prevent them also from being crowded closely 
together. Only one building for dwelling-house purposes is per- 
mitted on each lot. No liquor saloon or other undesirable places 
are allowed in the place, and stringent regulations govern the 
drainage arrangements. This spring of 1887 finds a dozen houses 
already in course of erection there, with every prospect of a rapid 
increase. 

There are many persons who prefer that their summer residence 
should be select and exclusive, with plenty of breathing-room and 
a guarantee against objectionable neighbors, as well as against too 
near neighbors of any kind. Chelsea seems to offer them just 
what they require — a combination of suburban attractions together 
with proximity to the railroads, churches, schools, shops, and great 
hotels of Atlantic City proper. The Camden and Atlantic Rail- 
road will have a station at Chelsea, and both the street cars and 
omnibusses will convey passengers to and from the city. 

Besides the handsome cottages already erected for the occupancy 
of wealthy Philadelphia families, many of the better class of 
Atlantic City residents — the bankers, merchants, physicians, 
lawyers, etc., are considering the advisibility of "moving down 
to Chelsea. " It promises to become the fashion. 

The Chelsea Beach Company was organized in 1883 by Mrs. 
Mary A. Riddle, Dr. Rebecca C. Hallowell, Miss Julia M. French, 
Julia P. Brown, Henry Mosebach, and others. Mrs. Riddle was 
the active spirit among the enterprising ladies who first conceived 
the idea of creating such a suburb. She was President of the 
Company during the first two years of its existence — its most try- 
ing period — and is still one of its largest stockholders. The fol- 
lowing are the present officers of the Company : President, D. S. 
Dengler ; Vice-President, Dr. Boardman Reed; Treasurer, Henry 
Mosebach ; Secretary, Ebenezer Wood, with a board of nine 
Directors. 



flints for the ^eashors. 



TTTHE following hints to seashore visitors may be of interest : It 

I is better to telegraph in advance for rooms at hotels. A 

^Xj single room means a room for one person ; a double room 

means a room for two persons ; a double-bedded room means a 

room with two beds. Always mention the day of the week and 

train by which you will arrive. 

To discharge sewage directly into the ocean in front of the 
bathing-grounds, as is done at some coast resorts, is highly objec- 
tionable. To let it empty into a sluggish creek or ditch running 
through the town, as is the method at other resorts, is even more 
dangerous. 

Visitors to the seashore require the luxuries as well as the neces- 
sities of life. Cigars and tobacco are counted among the luxuries, 
but to many they are a necessity. John M. Taylor, of 1220 Atlantic 
Avenue, deals in several brands of cigars which are really luxuries 
to lovers of the weed. 

The atmospheric pressure at the sea level has been computed to 
be about fifteen pounds to the square inch, which amounts to from 
fourteen to sixteen tons upon the whole surface of the human 
body. At an elevation of a few hundred feet above the sea the pres- 
sure is materially less. The change from a high or even medium 
altitude to the seaside involves an increase of the pressure upon 
every square inch of the body. To this fact is largely due the ex- 
traordinary feeling of buoyancy and vigor, as well as the stimula- 
tion of all the nutritive processes, which are experienced upon 
going to the shore. 

Besides being blessed with a good degree of the milk of human 
kindness, Mr. Henry C. Wright supplies humanity with the milk of 
the kine, commonly called the cow. As a milkman Mr. Wright is 
a success. He is the Wright man in the right place. The office of 

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this dispenser of the lacteal fluid is on Virginia Avenue below 

Arctic. 

As to exercise, the danger is that invalids visiting Atlantic City 
will take too much, owing to the extraordinary stimulative effects 
of the sea air. They need, therefore, to be careful that they do 
not exhaust their small stock of vitality as fast as it can be replen- 
ished. But this tendency is much less in winter than in summer, 
when the nightly hops and other pleasures and dissipations keep 
the more impressionable visitors in a constant whirl of excitement. 

For some persons the air alone is sufficient, while others get on 
famously with the air and the help of judicious bathing. Still 
others need medicines, and suffer by having them stopped during 
their stay at the seashore. For these the tonic and alterative vir- 
tues of the air often furnish just the adjuvants necessary to accom- 
plish the cure. The medicines which at home were nugatory or 
only half successful may succeed perfectly with the aid of the sea 
air when neither alone would be sufficient. 

In a place the size of Atlantic City there are necessarily some 
hotels of limited capacity for boarders, but otherwise well able to 
provide for the thirsty visitor. Such a place is kept by Mr. W. I. 
Walsh, at 1322 Atlantic Avenue, in close proximity to the depot. 

Atlantic City is different from any other watering-place in the 
world, for three reasons : First, because the air here is filled with 
iodine and the sea with chloride of sodium ; second, because, with 
a whole universe of water, the place itself is dry, and, third, be- 
cause of its perfect rest and its infinite horizons. 

H. E. Tietjen, Jr., is the original and only candy manufac- 
turer in Atlantic City. His business was established eight years 
ago, and he has been seven years in his present location, 10 14 
Atlantic Avenue. His trade is not confined to Atlantic City, con- 
fections of his manufacture being shipped to all parts of the country, 
even as far as the Pacific slope. His specialties are marshmallows 
and " old-fashioned " cream candy. 

Ozone or oxygen in an active electrical state is an important ingre- 
dient of the atmosphere at the seashore as well as in mountain dis- 
tricts, while it is nearly absent from the devitalized air of large 
cities. This is the most powerful oxidizing agent known, and its 
presence unquestionably greatly enhances the vigor and activity of 
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A noteworthy property of sea air is its greater density as com- 
pared with the atmosphere of inland places which have a consider- 
able altitude. This increase of density enables more oxygen to be 
taken into the lungs with each inspiration, and thus increases 
oxidation. 

The visitor to Atlantic City often wishes to send to friends at 
home photographic and stereoscopic views of the seashore. These 
can be had at J. H. Wolsieffer's art, music, and stationery store, 
adjoining the post-office. Connected with the store is a circu- 
lating library, music rooms, and an art studio. Standard works 
and light literature may be found on his shelves. The Hand-Book 
of Atlantic City is also on sale here. 

"When winter's storms have passed and gone shall summer's 
sun succeed?" sang the sentimental wight 'neath the chamber win- 
dow of his fair inamorato. "Never you mind about the winter 
storms or summer suns ; just you go and look at my wood pile !" 
exclaimed the irate papa of the young lady. No doubt if he had 
burned Borton's coal, the wood pile would not have been so low. 
By Borton we mean George B. Borton, whose coal yard and office 
are at Baltic and Indiana Avenues. He deals extensively in the 
finest quality of Lehigh and Schuylkill coal, carefully screened and 
picked, and guaranteed full 2240 pounds with every ton. His coal 
is largely used by residents and cottagers of Atlantic City. He 
also deals in building brick of his own manufacture. Mr. Borton 
is one of the best known and highly esteemed of our local trades- 
men. 

To the influence of the Gulf Stream we must attribute the geni- 
ality and curious softness of atmosphere which greets the new- 
comer at this favored spot. The mean temperature in January is 
35 9 , and often at mid-day stands at 50 in the coldest months of 
our northern year. 

The matter of diet is not so important at the seashore in winter 
as in summer, but it is safe to counsel all invalids to restrain the 
prodigious appetite they are almost sure to have soon after coming 
here in winter; otherwise constipation, headaches, and loss of 
appetite will follow. 

It is a mistake to suppose that one cannot take cold at the sea- 
shore. Invalids should take the usual precautions against being 
chilled. In the winter season and on summer evenings wraps are 



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always in order ouf-of-doors, though in summer they need not be 
heavy. 

" We dye to live and live to die " was the motto of a well-known 
dyer who died long ago. But among the dyers who still live to dye 
is Mrs. William Doerschner, of 933 Atlantic Avenue. Visitors will 
find her prompt and reliable, and we cordially commend her to 
those needing the services of a first-class dyer. D'ye see? 

People recover quickly here from surgical operations, which is a 
very valuable proof of the cleanness of the atmosphere. • 

It is a true though trite saying, " Never despise the day of small 
things." It was evidently some such thought as this which inspired 
Mr. Edward Prag to establish in Atlantic City the Metropolitan 
Five and Ten Cent Store, at 1810 Atlantic Avenue, where for a 
dime or a half dime the purchaser can generally secure what in 
other stores he would be expected to pay double that amount for. 
Necessarily, in a business of this kind the profits are small, but the 
sales are quick. Recently Mr. Prag was obliged to enlarge his 
store to accommodate his increased trade. 

It was Bobby Burns who said, " Some hae meat that canna eat, 
and some would eat that want it ; but we hae meat, and we can 
eat," thanks be to Adolph Kessler, whose meat market is on 
Atlantic Avenue, a few doors below Ohio. Hunger is said to be 
the best seasoning for meat, but Kessler's meats, being fresh and 
sweet, need no seasoning other than that of nature. Kessler's 
Market-House is an imposing building, an ornament to the lower 
section of the city, and its energetic proprietor is one of Atlantic 
City's most prosperous citizens. His trade reaches to all parts of 
the island, and many of his customers have dealt with him regu- 
larly since he began business in 1878. 

Atlantic City is an especial home for those who suffer from rheu- 
matism, and for some inscrutable reason they find their pains relax 
when at this place. 

A radiation of heat is constantly taking place from such a large 
body of salt water as the ocean, which is warmer in winter and 
cooler in summer than the surface of the land adjacent ; hence the 
air over the sea or at the shore is usually warmer in winter, though 
cooler in summer, than that of interior places in the same latitude. 

If it be true that where there's a will there's a way, it is equally 
true that where there's a way there's a Wills. That is, if there is a 



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way to sell groceries, Wills, whose front name is Lewis E., will 
be sure to find it. He is one of the most enterprising men on the 
island. Besides groceries and provisions, he makes a specialty of 
butter, eggs, and poultry at his double store, 919 and 921 Atlantic 
Avenue. He is the sole agent for Filhol & Autheman's imported 
olive oils, with which he supplies most of the leading hotels of 
Atlantic City. 

Seaside towns located at the extremities of capes, where the 
wind blows off large bodies of water on nearly all sides, have a 
more humid air than those not so exposed. Thus Atlantic City 
has been found to have a much drier air than most seashore 
resorts. This may be partly due to the trend of the coast at this 
point and to its distance from the mouth of any large river, since 
winds often seem to focus at the mouths of rivers, and the stronger 
the winds from the seaward the greater the degree of moisture. 
Furthermore, the large extent of very dry, sandy barrens directly 
behind the city causes the land breezes to be particularly devoid 
of moisture. 

Water absorbs heat and parts with it by radiation more slowly 
than the land. Hence in hot weather water is comparatively 
cooler than the land, while in cold weather it is comparatively 
warmer. Therefore the summer temperature of a country border- 
ing on the sea is lowered, while the winter temperature is moder- 
ated. This explains why Atlantic City is cooler in summer and 
warmer in winter than places inland. The prevailing winds here 
are from the sea, and winds which come from the sea temper the 
extremes of heat and cold. 

John Wesley, in writing upon the subject of dress, maintained 
that it was a duty and not a sin to dress well. " Cleanliness is 
next to godliness," said he, and ever since his day and generation 
mankind has believed in the wisdom and piety of wearing clean 
clothes. Hence every city has its laundry. To have these at his 
commmd while at the seashore, the visitor needs the services of a 
laundryman, and this need is well supplied by Mr. A. W. Bowers, 
agent for the popular Shoemakertown Steam Laundry, at 821 
Atlantic Avenue. 

None but the better class of hotels and representative business 
men of Atlantic City are invited to advertise in this Hand-Book, 
and the fact that they appear is a guarantee of their character. 



80 Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 

There are certain things with which every visitor must supply 
himself before starting on his journey homeward, and certain facts, 
a knowledge of which will be useful to him while on his way. For 
this reason a little time devoted to an examination of our adver- 
tising pages will doubtless be profitably spent. 

The south and east winds of Atlantic City are warmed in winter 
by their passage across the Gulf Stream ; and therefore the captious, 
impatient invalid can rise in the morning free from that pinching 
pain which inclines him to speak in uncomplimentary terms of the 
thermometer. 

It is a wet soil rather than a moist air which is so injurious to 
health, and a considerable portion of our Atlantic coast, including 
that bordering the southern part of New Jersey, has an exceedingly 
dry, porous, sandy soil, which permits water to rapidly sink away 
except during spells of very rainy weather. 

Skill in dentistry can only be acquired after years of practice ; 
in other words, skill requires practice and practice brings skill. It 
is now six years since Dr. C. E. Ulmer, of 1112 Atlantic Avenue, 
opened an office in this city, and by skillful treatment of his 
patients he has built up a large practice. In his laboratory he 
manufactures nitrous-oxide gas daily. 

The brisk sea-breezes of early spring, which sing and whistle 
around the cottage gables and through the bare branches, inspire 
the visitors with longings for the vigorous exercise of brisk walks 
and long horseback rides. From these they return with such glow- 
ing cheeks, sparkling eyes, and keen appetites that the mere sight 
of them is a better advertisement of Atlantic City air as a tonic 
than all the books that could be written. 

Quaint Gabriel Thomas, in writing of Pennsylvania and West 
Jersey in 1698, said : "Of lawyers and physicians I shall say 
nothing, because this country is very peaceable and healthy. Long 
may it so continue and never have occasion for the tongue of the 
one nor the pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's 
estates and lives; besides, forsooth, they, hangman like, have a 
license to murder and make mischief." 

Happily the times have changed since Gabriel wrote his little 
history. Lawyers and physicians are now quite as necessary in any 
community as is the merchant, the pedagogue, or the preacher. 
Of lawyers Atlantic City has her share of the best, the oldest 



Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 8 1 

being Slape & Stephany, Mr. Slape being City Solicitor, and Mr. 
Stephany a graduate of one of the German universities; Thomp- 
son & Endicott, the former District Attorney of the county, and 
the latter County Collector ; S. D. Hoffman, present Mayor of the 
city ; James B. Nixon, a graduate of Columbia Law School ; 
Samuel E. Perry, formerly an influential citizen of Hunterdon 
County, N. J,, and also a graduate of Columbia Law School, and 
George T. Ingham, a graduate of Union College, New York. 

Diedrich Knickerbocker, who wrote his famous History of New 
York, existed about the time that old Nicholas Allen made his 
discovery of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania in 1790. Years 
before that, however, a close observer suspected that there were 
coal fields somewhere in Penn's domain, for historian Thomas, 
writing in 1698, said that he had observed that " the runs of water 
have the same color as that which proceeds from the coal mines in 
Wales." The Knickerbocker family in New York, whence came 
the name of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, knew little about 
coal in this country, but their descendants of to-day show their 
reverence for the name by buying their coal and ice of the Knick- 
erbocker Company, whose branch office in Atlantic City, opposite 
the Post-office, is in charge of Mr. H. J. Keller, superintendent. 

It is a very easy matter to judge who are the public-spirited men 
of any town. It is those who help along every enterprise designed 
to further the interests of the place. It is manifest that a Hand- 
Book like this must be beneficial to Atlantic City in many ways, 
and that there is a lack of public-spirited citizens is clearly dis- 
proven by the advertising pages, in which is represented almost 
every place of business of any importance on the island. 

Most of the illustrations which appear in this Hand-Book are the 
property of the compiler, being engraved expressly for this work. 
They are copyrighted and cannot therefore be used in other publi- 
cations without a violation of the copyright law, except with the 
consent of the compiler of this Hand-Book. 

An old couplet reads : 

" There is not in this wide world a pleasure so sweet 
As when you have fresh fish and good oysters to eat." 

Supplies of the succulent bivalves, fresh from their native beds, 
fish of all kinds, and game in season are received daily by Risley 



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Barlow, of 1922 Atlantic Avenue. Mr. Barlow owns his own oys- 
ter beds and his own vessels, while the finest fish in the sea seem to 
come to his net as regularly as the sun rises and sets. He has an 
artificial fish pond in the hold of his vessel, and in this way always 
has them fresh for his customers. 

HOW TO LIVE LUXURIOUSLY AND ECONOMICALLY. 

Seashore living at one time was very expensive. A few dealers 
controlled the trade, and not only were prices high, but the delica- 
cies and relishes to which city residents were accustomed could not 
be secured at all. To-day matters are very different at Atlantic 
City. Prices are as low as in any large city, and almost everything 
in the fancy grocery line can now be obtained. This change is to 
a large degree due to the influence of Finley Acker & Co.'s 
branch house at 922 Atlantic Avenue, next door to George Allen. 
Their well-known Philadelphia establishment, at 123 North Eighth 
Street, is celebrated for its superior goods, moderate prices, and 
polite service. When their branch store was opened in Atlantic 
City the same characteristics were observed. A complete price- 
list of all their articles was freely distributed. All goods were 
guaranteed. Everybody got the one, lowest price. Prompt and 
polite service was extended to all. The same assortment was kept 
and the same prices charged as in their Philadelphia establishment. 
Their business, especially in coffees and teas, grew very rapidly, 
and their enterprise in lessening the cost and improving the quality 
of foods has no doubt largely contributed to the popularity of 
Atlantic City as a family resort. 






Of hotels near a Whole City pull. 



WHILE Atlantic City has much pride and satisfaction in the 
fact that it is a thriving city of ten thousand permanent 
inhabitants, it is as a cosmopolitan winter and summer 
resort for invalids and pleasure-seekers that she is most widely 
known. Beginning more than a decade ago, Atlantic City has be- 
come known no less as a fashionable place of refuge from the 
piercing cold of winter, than as a cool retreat from the sweltering 
heat of summer, and this result is due, first, to the attractions and 
benefits of the climate, which is warmer than that of Charleston 
in winter and cooler than that of Boston in summer, and, sec- 
ondly, to the capacity, elegance, and extent of her hotels. In fact, 
the hotels and boarding-houses of Atlantic City are a significant 
feature of its desirable qualities. It can truly be said of this place, 
as of no other resort on the coast, that of hotels there is " near a 
whole city full." A number of these houses take rank with the 
first-class hotels of the country. Many of them are open through- 
out the year and are thoroughly adapted for winter and spring, as 
well as for summer use. 

Besides those enumerated below, there are in Atlantic City dozens 
of other smaller hotels and boarding-houses which, in summer, 
devote their surplus rooms and best attention to guests, and the 
excellent accommodations thus afforded are much appreciated by 
those who visit the City by the Sea. The fact that, compared with 
the practices which obtain at most watering-places on the coast, 
the cost of summering here seems insignificant, doubtless has much 
weight with those who do not care to spend a year's earnings for a 
month's summering. 

The pioneer in the business of winter hotel-keeping in Atlantic 
City was the late Mr. F. W. Hemsley, father of Mr. Frederick 
Hemsley, now of the Hotel Brighton. In 1876 Mr. Hemsley 
opened the Brighton Cottage, on Indiana Avenue, for winter as 

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well as for summer visitors. The benefits derived by guests of the 
Brighton from the bracing air and mild winter climate encouraged 
many others to seek Atlantic City at that season for health and 
recuperation. Until that time, however, no provision had been 
made for winter guests, excepting those who came here to enjoy 
the gunning and fishing, and it was found necessary to enlarge the 
Brighton during the fall and winter of 1877, when many comforts 
and conveniences hitherto unknown at seashore hotels were pro- 
vided. The house was reopened in March, 1878, and from that 
time onward it was filled with guests, principally from New York, 
Philadelphia, and Baltimore. It remained open throughout the 
year for eight years, or until September 13th, 1886, when the 
owner, having decided to make extensive alterations and improve- 
ments, found it necessary to close its doors to the public. After 
five months' work the architect and contractor pronounced the 
improvements complete, and in March, 1887, the building was re- 
opened, enlarged to nearly double its former capacity, refurnished 
throughout, and supplied with all those conveniences which are 
found in the best-equipped hotels of the country. 

The Hotel Brighton is situated on the ocean front, between Illi- 
nois and Indiana Avenues, surrounded by a lawn which extends to 
the water's edge and in close proximity to several attractive cot- 
tages. The building is L-shaped and is four stories in height. The 
main building is 275 feet in length and the wing 160 feet. A 
broad piazza, 735 feet long, part of which is inclosed in glass, ex- 
tends around the building, affording a pleasant promenade. The 
first floor comprises the main parlor, ladies' reception and writing 
rooms, gentlemen's reading and writing rooms, children's and 
nurses' rooms, private and general offices, lavatory, main dining- 
room, nurses' dining-room, gentlemen's toilet rooms, billiard, 
smoking, and wine rooms, kitchen, pantries, pastry, china, and 
store rooms. The main hall is finished in antique oak, the piers 
and ceiling beams being incased in the same kind of wood. The 
piers are square, with sunken paneled faces, Romanesque carved 
caps, and base moldings. The ends of the ceiling beams are car- 
ried on brackets, which spring from the tops of the caps. All the 
doors opening into the hall are of antique oak, with six panels each. 
The halls and stairs are wainscoted in plain oak, four feet high, 
with sunken oak panels and molded cap and base. The dining- 



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hall, adjoining the main hall, is also wainscoted, the heavy piers 
having molded caps, base moldings, and chamfered corners. 
The ceiling is paneled, with molded corners surrounding each 
panel. The elaborate finish of the dining-hall, main hall, and 
staircase, aside from other attractive features, gives to the Brighton 
an appearance of richness and elegance. Access to the floors 
above is by means of a wide, double staircase, facing the entrance, 
and also by means of an Otis hydraulic elevator, which leads from the 
basement to the fourth floor. There are one hundred and fifty large 
bed-rooms, single or en suite, several of which have private baths at- 
tached. The house has been refurnished throughout, has open grate 
fires in many of the rooms, and ladies' and gentlemen's closets on every 
floor. Hot and cold sea-water baths are also provided. All the 
public rooms and corridors are heated with open grate fires and 
steam radiators. At the ocean end of each floor is a large circular 
bay window, designed as an observatory. The telegraph and news 
office adjoins the main staircase on the first floor. Attached to the 
building are fire-escapes and electric fire-alarms, besides six stair- 
cases on each floor, and other means of protection in case of fire. 
On each floor, near the centre of the building, there is a water 
nozzle, to which is attached a fire-hose for use in emergency. In 
the construction of the Brighton particular attention has been paid 
to ventilation and drainage. The hotel has been repainted in new 
colors, inside and out. New and tasteful gas fixtures have also 
been introduced. A fifty-horse power engine and boiler furnishes 
steam, and a twenty-horse power engine and boiler hot water for all 
the departments. The service and cuisine of the Brighton are always 
of the best, and its guests are mostly persons of prominence in social 
and business circles. It is considered the most select hotel on the 
island. 



The Mansion is accounted the largest of the Atlantic City hotels 
which are open throughout the year. It is centrally located at the 
corner of Pennsylvania and Atlantic Avenues, convenient to the 
depot and within easy reach of the ocean. This hotel has been 
fitted up at great expense with every regard for the comfort and 
pleasure of its guests. The dining-room of the Mansion, which 
will seat three hundred persons, surpasses in elegance any room of 
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of the artist's skill. The walls of the corridors, parlor, and re- 
ception-rooms are also beautifully frescoed. Its large and hand- 
somely furnished bed-rooms, many of them communicating, offer 
a feature of comfort rarely found elsewhere. In fact, every im- 
provement and arrangement for the comfort and convenience of 
his guests has been added by the energetic proprietor of this 
house, Mr. Charles McGlade, and being liberally managed, it has a 
patronage excelled by that of no other house on the island. Elec- 
tric bells communicate with all parts of the building, and attached 
to the house is the main office of the Western Union Telegraph 
Company and a branch of the Union News Company. Adjoining 
the open pavilion for dancing, in the rear of the house, is a well- 
appointed children's play-room. Select hops are held almost 
nightly in the pavilion during the summer season. In the con- 
duct of this excellent house Mr. McGlade is his own manager, and 
by looking carefully after the wants of his guests no one has cause 
for complaint. At the close of the coming summer season he pro- 
poses making extensive alterations to the building, introducing an 
elevator, steam heating, and other improvements. 



The Seaside House is recommended to the pleasure-seeker and 
invalid as one in all respects complete in every way that can 
add to the comfort and enjoyment of its guests. It was recently 
removed from its former site on Pennsylvania Avenue below Pacific 
to its present location at the ocean end of Pennsylvania Avenue. 
The building has been greatly enlarged and remodeled, both within 
and without, and a solid brick basement placed under the whole 
by its energetic proprietor, Mr. Charles Evans. An entire new 
wing has been added, so that there are now accommodations for 
two hundred guests. The dining-room has been enlarged and the 
culinary department extended. Its accommodations throughout 
are ample, its table is provided with the best of everything in abun- 
dance, and all modern improvements, including a hydraulic eleva- 
tor, have been introduced for convenience and safety. The sanitary 
arrangements are perfect. There is steam-heating and low-down 
grates in the bed-rooms, besides fresh and salt water baths, for 
the free use of the guests. The building has wide porches and sun 
parlors, a billiard-room, smoking-room, and reading-room. From 
every part of the house there is a delightful ocean view, and 



Illustrated Hand- Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 87 

within convenient distance, even for invalids, is the new Seaside 
Ocean Parlor, situated directly on the beach and furnished with 
every regard for comfort. Here the health or pleasure seeker may 
enjoy the refreshing air of the ocean, or he may feast his eyes on a 
water view unsurpassed in the world for extent and grandeur. 
Attached to the Seaside Parlor are smoking-rooms for gentlemen, 
a library, and reception-room overlooking the ocean. Here the 
visitor may also enjoy his ease, day in and day out, winter or 
summer, tempest or sunshine. Adjoining the parlor are hot salt- 
water baths, with accommodations for one hundred persons. 



The United States Hotel, so widely known as the leading sum- 
mer hostelrie, covers an entire block, extending from Atlantic to 
Pacific and from Maryland to Delaware Avenues. It is the oldest 
hotel on the island, having been opened to the public on July 1st, 
1854, on the day of the first excursion to Atlantic City, when six 
hundred guests were dined in the spacious dining-room of this hotel. 
The building has since been enlarged and much improved, the latest 
feature being a hydraulic passenger and baggage elevator leading from 
the first to the fourth floor. The appointments are in every sense 
the best, and are so arranged that luxury responds to the touch of 
the electric bells. Its cheerful rooms, most of them commanding 
a full view of the ocean, are furnished with a strict regard for com- 
fort. Broad halls opening upon extensive piazzas, well-fitted and 
tastefully arranged parlors, a commodious dancing-pavilion, per- 
fect drainage, excellent cuisine, fire escapes — these and other features 
combine to make the " States" what it has justly been pronounced, 
one of the best hotels on the coast. The proprietor, Mr. Benjamin 
H. Brown, is considering the advisability of making it a winter 
and spring as well as summer hotel. 



The secret of successful hotel-keeping is an excellent table, and 
herein lies the secret of the success of the Dennis, of which Borton 
& Marshall are proprietors. This popular house has a national 
reputation for excellence of cuisine. Lately it has undergone a 
thorough renovation; and being enlarged one-third its former size, 
now has accommodations for two hundred guests. Situated at the 
foot of Michigan Avenue, almost at the water's edge, no house on 
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rooms have an uninterrupted sea view, and a sight of the breakers 
may be enjoyed at all hours from the windows and spacious veran- 
das of the hotel. Among the many improvements to this house 
is the introduction of a hydraulic elevator, besides which there are 
several staircases and ample provision for escape in case of fire. 
There are also hot and cold sea-water baths, electric bells, and, in 
fact, every modern improvement usually found in a first-class hotel. 
The house is newly furnished throughout, and the wall decorations 
on the first floor are elaborate. 



Mr. Edwin Lippincott having removed his popular Haddon 
House to a more eligible location nearer the beach, has added two 
new wings and made other extensive improvements to the building, 
which he now calls Haddon Hall, after an ancient manor of the 
same name in old England, whence came Elizabeth Haddon, the 
founder of Haddonfield, nearly two centuries ago. Haddon Hall 
has now a solid brick basement, an elevator leading to each of the 
upper floors, electric bells and fire and burglar alarms throughout, 
cozy sun-parlors, spacious verandas, and, indeed, every requisite 
for comfort. There are one hundred and six sleeping-apartments, 
with an ocean view, a large dining-room, reception-rooms, and 
parlor on the first floor, the latter commanding a magnificent view 
of the ocean. It is supplied with pure spring water, has steam- 
heating, thorough drainage, and every sanitary appliance. Mr. 
Lippincott's long experience at hotel-keeping in Atlantic City has 
made his house very popular with the many thousands who visit 
the seashore. It is an excellent winter house and enjoys an exten- 
sive patronage. Haddon Hall has accommodations for nearly two 
hundred and fifty guests. 



To the visitor the Traymore is always recommended as one of 
the largest, most comfortable, and most fashionable of the Atlantic 
City hotels. He finds here large and luxurious rooms, elevators, 
electric bells, billiard-rooms, sun parlors, and wide and sheltered 
porches for exercise. It stands very near the water, at the foot of 
Illinois Avenue, a fine view of the ocean being afforded from almost 
every room in the house. The broad piazza facing the ocean is in 
great favor with guests of the Traymore. This house has enjoyed 
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the late Vice-President Hendricks, who was so well pleased with 
his first visit that he shortly afterward returned with his wife, the 
two remaining for several weeks. A few months ago the Traymore 
was purchased by Walter W. Green & Co. Mr. Green is acknowl- 
edged to be the most successful hotel-keeper in Cape May. He 
still retains his interest in the Hotel Windsor, at that place, 
and has associated with him in the management of the Traymore 
his two sons-in-law, Mr. G. E. Knight and Mr. D. S. White, Jr. 
The drainage and other sanitary arrangements of the house are 
perfect and the water supply is excellent. The Traymore is ele- 
gantly furnished throughout and has open grate fires in almost 
every bed-room. 



The Vermont House is a popular winter and summer house, 
situated on the avenue from which it takes its name. It has one 
of the finest ocean outlooks on the island, the Inlet, as well as the 
ever restless sea, being in full view from its windows or spacious 
verandas. The Vermont is one of the leading all-the-year-round 
houses, and its guests comprise representatives of the best families 
of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. It has all the con- 
veniences of more expensive houses, and for solid comfort is con- 
sidered equal to the best on the island. The proprietress is Mrs. 
M. E. Compton. 



The Margate is one of the newer houses, but is among the best. 
The proprietor, Mr. Samuel Kirby, formerly of the Seaside House, 
is a thorough hotel man and does a large winter and summer busi- 
ness. The Margate is eligibly located at the corner of Pacific 
Avenue and Surf Place, convenient to the beach and within a short 
distance of the depot. Broad verandas surround the house and 
from nearly every bed-room there is a full view of the ocean. The 
house is thoroughly heated in winter, delightfully cool in summer, 
and is fitted up with all modern conveniences. On the first floor 
there is an elaborately furnished parlor, reception, smoking, and 
reading rooms, a spacious dining-room, etc. The table is supplied 
with the best viands and the appointments are those of a strictly 
first-class house. The Margate is patronized by many of the best 
families from Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, and Washington. 

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Hagan's Hotel, at the corner of New Jersey and Atlantic 
Avenues, is an entirely new house, having been finished in Feb- 
ruary of the present year. It is well built, nicely furnished, and 
thoroughly comfortable, while the terms are moderate. The house 
has underground drainage and every sanitary appliance. The 
proprietor, Mr. P. F. Hagan, is a gentleman of experience in 
hotel keeping, and his guests always give a good account of him 
when they go home. 

The recent rapid development of the lower end of Atlantic City 
has opened the way for additional hotel accommodations, 
especially for winter and spring use. One of the more recent 
winter houses is the Minnequa, situated on Pacific Avenue above 
Missouri, of which Mr. William J. Cowley is the hospitable pro- 
prietor. This has long been a popular summer house, but last year 
Mr. Cowley fitted it up for winter use. The building has been 
enlarged to double its former size, and now has two fronts, one on 
Pacific and the other on Missouri Avenue, with city water, drain- 
age, water-closets on every floor, and other improved sanitary 
arrangements. It is furnished comfortably throughout and has all 
the appointments of higher-priced houses. The building is but 
one square from the beach and guests have the full benefit of the 
delightful ocean breezes. It is also one square from the Philadel- 
phia and Atlantic City Railroad depot, and not far from the post- 
office and West Jersey depot. 



The Waverly, at the corner of Pacific and Ohio Avenues, has 
been thoroughly renovated and beautified since the close of the 
season of 1886. The main parlor has been enlarged by the addi- 
tion of bay windows, and with new chandeliers in crystal designs, 
beautiful Wilton carpets, elaborate decorations, new furniture and 
hangings, it is one of the handsomest parlors in the place. The 
drainage of this house has been put in complete order, being 
flushed with Belmont closets, and everything necessary to the 
health and comfort of its guests has been considered. The bed- 
rooms, especially those having bay windows, are beautiful and 
spacious. The Waverly has hot and cold sea-water baths, a fine 
sun parlor, and many other comforts, making it one of the most 
homelike and pleasant houses on the island. 



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Congress Hall, though one of the oldest, is still one of the leading 
hotels of Atlantic City. Its present owners are the Coon Brothers, 
leading business men of Philadelphia, who have an experienced hotel 
manager in charge during the summer months, when the house is 
open. During the past year Congress Hall has undergone great 
changes, so that now it is almost a new house. This is especially 
true of the interior. Extensive improvements have been made in and 
about the office, affording private parlors, reading-room, gentlemen's 
smoking-room, etc. The kitchen has been remodeled and fitted 
up completely, and special attention will be given to the table this 
year, the same as last. The entire house has been thoroughly reno- 
vated, painted, papered, and refurnished, and made as attractive 
and comfortable as it is possible to make any seaside hotel. The 
sanitary arrangements are perfect, the drainage and improved water- 
closets having been introduced at an expense of several thousand 
dollars. Congress Hall was the first house in Atlantic City to intro- 
duce the hotel refrigerator. The excellent location of this house, 
at Pacific and Massachusetts Avenues, near the inlet, lighthouse, 
hot baths, surf bathing, and the new Iron Pier, is an important 
feature for the consideration of the visitor. The house has accom- 
modations for five hundred guests, and the fact that it is often filled 
during the summer season is sufficient evidence of its popularity. 
The rates are from ten to twenty dollars a week. 



The Brady House is one of the most comfortable of the down- 
town spring and summer houses. It is situated on Arkansas Avenue, 
between Atlantic and Pacific Avenues, and is elegantly furnished, 
besides having excellent sanitary arrangements. Attached to the 
house are newly laid out sanitarium grounds, affording light and 
healthful exercise for invalids. A pleasant feature of this house is 
the interest which the proprietor takes in making up parties from 
among his guests and their friends for a day's outing, either in the 
woods or on the water, in quest of fish or for the pleasure of a sail 
in some fleet-winged yacht. The terms of the Brady House are 
moderate, and the service very satisfactory. 



The Shelburne, standing at the extreme ocean front of Michigan 
Avenue, with a sea view unsurpassed in the city, is a modern and 
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single, double, or en suite, and replete with all the appointments 
of a refined and luxurious home. Pure water, electric bells, gas, 
telephone, hot and co.J sea-water baths, and other conveniences 
for the comfort and pleasure of summer or winter guests (the Shel- 
burne being always open) will be found complete in every depart- 
ment. The parlors, dining-room, reception, reading, and smok- 
ing rooms and sun galleries are commodious, bright, and excep- 
tionally attractive, and, with the entire establishment, handsomely 
and tastefully furnished. The table and service are unexceptionable, 
and the rates will be found reasonable. With very fine bathing- 
grounds only a few steps from the ever-shady veranda of the 
house, commanding an unrivaled ocean scene, the Shelburne, 
always patronized by the cultured and refined, offers a combination 
of attractions and advantages equal to any seaside hotel on the 
Atlantic coast. 



The Elkton is one of the best of the large boarding-houses. It 
is situated on Kentucky Avenue, near the beach, and commands a 
good ocean outlook. The house is tastefully furnished, comfortaby 
heated throughout, and well lighted. Speaking tubes lead from 
every floor to the main office on the first floor. The table of the 
Elkton is commended by those who are in the habit of stopping 
at this popular house and the terms are moderate. The bed-rooms 
are all of good size and handsomely furnished, and the other 
accommodations are entirely satisfactory. The proprietress is Mrs. 
A. P. Morris. 



Kuehnle's Hotel, at the corner of Atlantic and South Carolina 
Avenues, is the favorite stopping-place for transient visitors, being 
handy to the depot and in the very centre of the city. The accom- 
modations are of the best, and guests are always sure of satisfactory 
service, either in their rooms or at the table. The proprietor, Mr. 
Louis Kuehnle, is a thorough hotel-keeper. 



The Wallingford is situated on the most fashionable avenue of 
the city — Pacific, below Kentucky. The proprietor, M. A. Gravatt, 
has made it a popular house for both winter and summer guests. 
Recently the Wallingford has undergone some internal and exter- 
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water, underground drainage, and other hygienic features. It is 
one of the nicest of the larger boarding-houses, and fully deserves 
the large patronage which it receives. 



The Cataract is the name of a new house recently opened on 
New York Avenue above Pacific by Mr. T. H. Crinnian, late of 
the Prospect House, Niagara Falls. The building is attractively 
painted, well heated, and is newly furnished throughout. It is 
situated within convenient distance of the depot, as well as the 
beach, and a private omnibus meets all arriving and departing 
trains. Mr. Crinnian is a hotel-keeper of large experience and 
looks carefully after the comfort of his guests. 



On the west side of Tennessee Avenue, almost within a stone's 
throw of the beach, is the Windermere, of which Mrs. C. L. 
Houston is proprietress. The building is new, and from almost 
every room there is an unobstructed ocean view. Close by are the 
hot baths, the piers, and other places of interest. The Windermere 
has thorough sanitary arrangements and is in all respects a desirable 
and home-like house. 



After three years' management of the Atglen, on Michigan Ave- 
nue, Mrs. L. W. Reed opens another season under the most favor- 
able circumstances, having a large number of spring guests, with 
the promise of an increased summer business. The Atglen is in 
all respects a well-equipped house, having thorough drain- 
age, good water, large rooms, all tastefully furnished, besides an 
excellent table and other comforts. It is but a short distance from 
the beach and is situated on one of the best avenues of the city. 



The hotel of John A. Evers is at the corner of Atlantic and 
Georgia Avenues and commands a full view of the ocean. It is 
a new house and the terms are moderate. Mr. Evers manufactures 
superior wines at his vineyard in Egg Harbor, and keeps a stock 
of these always on hand at his hotel. Mr. Evers is an accommo- 
dating landlord, and his house is a desirable stopping-place. 



The Revere, originally known as the Day Cottages, is one of the 
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a. very successful career under the management of Mr. Day. It 
is situated on Park Avenue, near the beach, and in close proximity 
to the Brighton. The house has telephonic communication, hot 
and cold baths, and perfect sanitation. Guests are made as com- 
fortable here as at some of the higher-priced houses, while the 
rates are considered quite reasonable. The Revere has accommo- 
dations for one hundred guests. 



The Florida House is pleasantly situated on Pacific Avenue, 
between Tennessee and New York Avenues, and is but a few 
minutes' walk from both the depot and the beach. It has been 
enlarged and improved, and is fitted up as a winter house, with 
steam heating, gas, and electric lights. It has also been newly fur- 
nished throughout, while the sanitary arrangements are perfect and 
the other appointments strictly first-class. There are several hand- 
somely furnished bed-rooms on the first floor. Mrs. S. E. Cook, 
the proprietress, has entered upon her third year in Atlantic City, 
and has made the Florida House one of the most comfortable houses 
on the island. 




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Along Atlantic Avenue. 



TTTHE prosperity of Atlantic City is due in no small degree to the 
«J I I* liberality and enterprise of its men of business. Atlantic 
Avenue, the principal street, is lined with stores, offices, and 
<^-* other places of business, and a lively traffic is carried on 
throughout the year, especially from the first of February to the last 
of October. Although the place is known to most people as a winter 
and summer resort, it, nevertheless, offers inducements to the per- 
manent resident for business and light manufacturing. The number 
of all-the-year-round residents is steadily increasing, and in another 
decade the regular winter population of the place must be between 
fifteen and twenty thousand. The cost of living is comparatively 
cheap, being less than in the larger cities not far distant, or in most 
towns in the Eastern States. Land for the erection of buildings is 
obtainable at low prices, enabling mechanics and others to procure 
comfortable homes for themselves and families at a small outlay. 
The markets are supplied with all the necessities and most of the 
luxuries of life. There are good private schools, besides several 
public schools, capable of accommodating in their different depart- 
ments a large number of children. These are in charge of compe- 
tent teachers. There is also a High School and a public school 
library free to pupils who desire to enjoy its benefits. 

Besides what has been enumerated in another chapter of this 
Hand-Book, there are three express companies making connections 
with all the important points in the country, two newspapers, three 
banks of sufficient capital to supply the present business needs, gas 
and electric light companies, furnishing light to our streets and 
buildings, two flourishing building associations, and various other 
adjuncts of a well-regulated and well-governed city. 



PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE. 

In the matter of protection against fire Atlantic City is particu- 
larly favored — in fact, the place has the best volunteer fire depart- 
ment in the State. There are three efficient fire companies, besides 
a hook-and-ladder company. All these companies are well 
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quainted with their duties at a fire. The apparatus, although very 
good, is being constantly added to. New hose-carriages were 
lately received by two companies, and a Silsby engine of the most 
improved pattern by another. The city is also negotiating for a 
new fire-engine. Although a volunteer department, competent 
men are in the employ of the several* companies. The chief and 
his assistants make frequent inspections of the several companies, 
and their apparatus is in thorough order and ready for prompt ser- 
vice. To render the fire service more efficient there is an inexhaust- 
ible supply of water with sufficient force to throw a plug stream 
over any building in the city. It is a noteworthy fact that during the 
two years ending February first of the present year (1887) the total 
loss by fire in Atlantic City aggregated only fifteen hundred dol- 
lars, two-thirds of which was covered by insurance. For a " wooden 
city " this is a remarkable showing. 



SOME ENTERPRISING BUSINESS MEN. 

The rapid development of the hotel and boarding-house busi- 
ness in Atlantic City within the past year or two, the improvements 
to some of the larger houses, and the erection of so many private 
cottages, has opened a field for the furnishing of complete outfits 
for any size house, and this field E. S. Bell & Son, the furniture 
and carpet dealers, were quick to occupy. Their system of house- 
furnishing, which they call their " New Plan," is one which has met 
the approbation of some of the principal hotel men, as well as 
many of the boarding-house keepers and cottagers of Atlantic 
City. 

The "Seaside" and "Dennis" are among the larger houses 
which have recently been supplied with entire new outfits by this 
firm. Their system or plan has been pronounced a success by 
those who have tried it, and doubtless ere another season the firm of 
Bell & Son will find that not even the two stores which they now 
occupy, the one at 1903 and the other at 1924 Atlantic Avenue, 
will be adequate to the demands of their growing business. Start- 
ing scarcely more than six years ago, in a small way, the elder 
Bell found, in the course of a year or two, that his business was 
growing beyond his expectations, and he soon associated with him- 
self his son, Mr. William A. Bell, who had been connected with 
one of the leading carpet houses of Philadelphia. His thorough 
acquaintance with the carpet and furniture trade is evidenced by 
the ability which he has shown in aiding his father in the conduct 
of their large business in Atlantic City. With their new plan, and 
their new store, which must come, if noc this year, some other year, 
it needs no prophet to foresee that the firm of E. S. Bell & Son is 
on the highroad to prosperity. 



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In the matter of home decorations there has been remarkable 
progress within the last few years. It is only in the homes of those 
who have no love for the beautiful that we fail to find, nowadays, 
some evidence of an appreciation of the decorator's art. Upon 
the walls or on cabinet or mantel we see pretty pieces of bric-a- 
brac, Japanese work, paintings in oil or water colors, etchings, or 
other product of the engraver's skill. Commensurate with this 
growth in aesthetics has been the development of the art of wall 
decoration, commonly called paper-hanging. But there is a vast 
difference, in reality, between the ordinary paperhanger and the 
skillful decorator. One requires labor, the other talent. A man may 
be a success as a paperhanger, but an absolute failure as 
a decorator. Fortunately for Atlantic City, she is not without 
her decorator. Mr. O. H. Guttridge, who came here about ten 
years ago, has shown his skill in the line of wall decoration to a 
degree unsurpassed by the best decorators in any of the larger 
cities. His reputation extends even beyond Atlantic City, and he 
is frequently called upon to display his skill in some of the finest 
residences of Philadelphia. To meet the requirements of his grow- 
ing business in this City by the Sea he has two stores, one at 1003 
Atlantic Avenue, and the other at 1611 Atlantic Avenue, both of 
which are in charge of obliging attendants. 

Success in every undertaking is largely dependent upon two 
things — strict attention to business and honest treatment of the 
public. With this idea before him, Mr. George Myers, of the 
Union Market, came to Atlantic City about a dozen years ago, and 
has established for himself a business unequaled by that of any 
other market man in the city. The business is now practically in 
the hands of his four sons, and of the two oldest John does the buy- 
ing and Charles the selling. This house, besides being extensive 
dealers in Eastern meats and produce, are in direct communication 
with one of the largest meat dealers of Chicago, from whom they 
receive shipments of tenderloins several times weekly. They make 
a specialty of these tenderloins, which are in great demand among 
the best hotel and boarding-house keepers of Atlantic City. Myers' 
Union Market is situated on Atlantic Avenue, midway between 
New York and Kentucky Avenues. 

About twelve months ago Mr. H. S. Scull, after years of expe- 
rience in the wholesale dry goods trade'of Philadelphia, returned to 
his native heath — Atlantic county — and opened a retail dry goods 
store at 1609 Atlantic Avenue. The cardinal principles upon which 
the firm of H. S. Scull & Co. established their business — one price 
and no misrepresentation — soon brought to their store a large trade 
from the resident and visiting population of Atlantic City. Their 
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and gentlemen's furnishing goods, and they ask the ladies to note 
the fact that purchases made at their store are returnable if not 
satisfactory in quality or price. They furnish nearly everything 
likely to be needed by the visitor to the seashore, and we know of 
no other store which offers greater inducements to the buyer. 



Bread is said to be the staff of life, and, though the multitudes 
who visit Atlantic City are not supposed to live by bread alone, 
yet it is susceptible of proof that the " staff of life " enters more 
largely into their composition than any other article of diet. Ad- 
mitting, then, that bread is the most essential of the various kinds 
of food, the natural inquiry is, " How can we get good bread?" 
for it cannot be denied that some loaves which are called bread 
have little of the staff of life in them, or else, like coffee, they have 
been spoiled in the making. To insure good bread, the first re- 
quisite is good flour, and this can always be had of the well-known 
and reliable firm of Lewis Groff & Co., 1121 Atlantic Avenue. 
They are the sole agents for Washburn & Crosby's celebrated Min- 
nesota flour, than which there is nothing better in the market, and 
of which large quantities are sold in Atlantic City. This firm are 
also large dealers in all kinds of hay, grain, and feed. Owners of 
fine stock, who may be spending the summer here, will find at 
Groff's the best of horse-feed, including choice re-cleaned oats. 
Feed of all kinds is ground on the premises. 

Mr. Groff came to Atlantic City in 1878, having previously been 
engaged in the same business at Fourth and Columbia Avenue, 
Philadelphia. He is a native of Quakertown, Pa. 



The firm of Currie & Schroeder, hardware and stove dealers, 
plumbers and gasfitters, is the oldest in Atlantic City, the 
business having been established in 1857, at Absecon, by Mr. 
George F. Currie, father and father-in-law, respectively, of Mr. 
Currie and Mr. Schroeder. Subsequently it was removed to Atlantic 
City, this place having eclipsed its older but less progressive neigh- 
bor off-shore. Of the present firm, Mr. Srhroeder has special 
charge of the stove and hardware department, while Mr. Currie, 
himself a practical plumber, has general oversight of the plumbing 
and gasfitting. Their business is quite extensive and requires the 
services of a considerable force of skilled workmen. In the fur- 
nishing of supplies for new buildings, including paints and oils, the 
firm has been quite successful, and their business in that direction 
is steadily increasing. They are agents for the Chesapeake Iron 
Works, whose nails have a national reputation. They are also 
agents for various specialties in hardware, and are extensive dealers 
in the favorite Novelty heater and Victor cooking range, of which 






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they are sole agents. This firm is one of the most substantial on 
the island, and, with experience and capital behind them, they are 
constantly widening their field of business. 



In the spring of 1885 Mr. H. J. Steen, who had been associ- 
ated with a large tea and coffee house in Philadelphia, opened a 
similar establishment in this city at 1121 Atlantic Avenue, under 
Bartlett's Hall. His business prospered, and to meet the demands 
of his trade he added a line of fancy groceries, thus enlarging his 
field. Roasting his own coffee daily by steam, his customers were 
not long in finding out its merits over the stale though other- 
wise good coffees. Fresh-roasted coffee has a flavor about it 
which is wanting in the stale article. Coffee roasting is an art in 
itself, and to have it properly done is a matter of importance to the 
careful housewife or thorough-going hotel-keeper. Mr. Steen 's 
business is steadily increasing, not only in the line of teas and 
coffees, but in groceries generally, of which he keeps a good supply 
from the best wholesale houses in Philadelphia. One can readily 
find his store by simply looking for the large tea-pot over the side- 
walk, from which puffs of steam may be seen escaping at all hours 
of the day and night. 



With so many buildings recently erected, in course of erection, 
or to be erected, the wonder is that there are builders enough to do 
the building. If a man is a thorough master of his business, how- 
ever, he is generally found equal to any emergency. Two such men 
in Atlantic City are Mr. George W. Sherman and Mr. E. V. 
Corson, both well-known builders, practical carpenters, and owners 
of extensive lumber yards. The former has his office on Atlantic 
Avenue, above Pennsylvania, with a carpenter shop and yard 
adjoining, and the latter may be found at 2315 Atlantic Avenue, 
where he has his office and yard. During the last twelve months 
Mr. Corson has contracted for and finished no less than fifty houses 
in Atlantic City, and Mr. Sherman has erected almost an equal 
number of new buildings. Besides house-building, the latter 
makes a specialty of jobbing, having the only carpenter-shop in the 
city, and in the summer he has two men constantly engaged in 
making window screens for cottages, boarding-houses, and hotels. 
Both Mr. Sherman and Mr. Corson furnish plans and specifications, 
as well as estimates, for cottages, and the large number which they 
erect from year to year is the best evidence of the satisfactory 
character of their work. 



Among the first of the up-town grocers was Mr. Charles E. Adams, 
who came to Atlantic City in 1876 and opened a store in Novem- 
ber of that year opposite the United States Hotel. In November, 
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destroyed by fire, along with others in that vicinity, and he soon 
afterward located at the corner of South Carolina and Atlantic 
Avenues, where he still remains. He is one of the solid men of 
Atlantic City, is a director in the Electric Light Company and 
Board of Trade, and President of the People's Building and Loan 
Association. His patrons include many of the prominent cotta- 
gers and well-known residents, who usually find at his store the best 
of everything at the lowest city prices. 

Of the younger business men on Atlantic Avenue, L. Steuber 
& Bro., the grocers at the corner of Indiana Avenue, take front 
rank. Careful and conservative, they are worthy sons of an hon- 
ored sire, to whose business they succeeded about three years ago, 
They are the only dealers in the celebrated Limburger cheese, and 
their other specialties are Swiss cheese and Holland herring. 



The oldest of the several dry goods stores in Atlantic City is that 
of Thompson Irvin, at 1619 and 1621 Atlantic Avenue, which was 
established ten years ago. Previous to that time staple dry goods 
were sold at the general stores and one or two small trimming stores 
of the place. Mr. Irvin at first kept his store open during the sum- 
mer months only, but a year or two later, as the city grew in size 
and importance, he resolved to make it a permanent branch of his 
larger store at Ninth and Washington Avenues, Philadelphia. From 
a small beginning his business has increased to such an extent as to 
necessitate his occupying two stores, both of which are well stocked 
with such goods as are found on the counters of the best dry goods 
stores of Philadelphia. Prices are the same here as at his city store, 
and this fact, coupled with polite treatment of his customers, may 
be taken as an explanation of his success. Mr. Irvin's store is a 
favorite shopping-place for ladies, both residents and visitors, many 
of the latter making their purchases there from year to year, as the 
seasons roll by. 



Smith's Atlantic Bakery is one of the principal places of busi- 
ness in the lower part of the city. It is situated at the corner of 
Atlantic and Ohio Avenues. The proprietor, Mr. H. H. Smith, 
has been in the baking business over eleven years, and was the first 
to introduce what is known as Smith's home-made bread. He also 
does a large business in supplying hotels and cottages with pies, 
cakes, and fancy pastry of his own make. 



David Johnston's Eagle Bottling Establishment is the oldest in 
Atlantic City, having been started in 1865 by his uncle, now de- 
ceased. Mr. Johnston succeeded to the business thirteen years ago, 
and has built up a very large trade among the hotel men and pri- 
vate families of the island. His works are in the rear of 25 North 
Carolina Avenue, above Pacific. 



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One of the oldest groceries on Atlantic Avenue is that of Smith 
Conover, which was established at the corner of Atlantic and Vir- 
ginia Avenues eleven years ago. It is a popular store with up-town 
cottagers and residents, and the proprietor does a thriving trade the 
year round. 



J. C. Wahl is the oldest, and, it is claimed, the leading shoe- 
maker of Atlantic City. He began business in 1872, and as the 
city grew in size his business showed a corresponding increase. At 
the beginning of the present year he erected a new building at the 
corner of Atlantic and Virginia Avenues, which is said to be the 
finest store in Atlantic City. It is both wide and deep, and is at- 
tractively furnished. His business is quite extensive, and, having 
established a reputation for fine custom-made shoes, he has secured 
a trade which extends beyond the limits of Atlantic County. In- 
deed, some of his best customers reside in Philadelphia and more 
distant places, but being in the habit of coming to Atlantic City 
from year to year, they have formed a practice of buying all their 
foot-wear of Mr. Wahl, of whom it may be said, he gives all his 
customers " particular fits." 

About seven years ago Mr. John S. Taylor opened his Central 
Bakery in Atlantic City. His capital was limited, and he did all 
the work himself with nothing more than an ordinary cookstove. 
What he made, however, he made well, and people soon found that 
his bread and cakes were equal to the best that could be had any- 
where. At the end of the first season Mr. Taylor found himself 
several hundred dollars in pocket, after paying all expenses, and 
the following year his business was greatly extended. A year ago 
he enlarged his building by adding another story and erecting an 
entire new front. Subsequently he leased the adjoining property 
and connected the two buildings, using one as a store and ladies' 
restaurant, and the other as a gentlemen's restaurant. In the early 
part of the present year (1887) he added about seventy feet to the 
depth of both buildings, deepening the store and restaurant, and 
converting the entire second floor into a spacious banqueting-hall 
— the finest in the city. On the first floor of his main building Mr. 
Taylor has a very handsome soda-water fountain, far surpassing 
anything of the kind in Atlantic City. His business is rapidly in- 
creasing. Last year it amounted to nearly fifty thousand dollars, 
and this year it promises to exceed that amount. He is one of the 
most enterprising business men on the island. 



Mr. Robert Stroud, of the Southwestern Market, began busi- 
ness in Atlantic City six years ago in a small building on Atlantic 
Avenue just below Illinois. His business gradually increased, and 
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Opera House, on Atlantic Avenue below Missouri, which he im- 
proved and converted into an extensive market-house for the sale 
of meat and produce. This spirit of improvement, started by Mr. 
Stroud, soon extended to other property owners and business men 
in that locality, and noticeable changes have been made in the 
neighborhood within a year or two. With low prices and close at- 
tention to business, Mr. Stroud has succeeded in building up a large 
trade. His sales have been nearly doubled during the past year. 



Since the introduction of water and drainage in Atlantic City 
the services of practical and experienced plumbers have been in 
demand. This demand has been met by Mr. L. E. Freeman, of 
1 02 2 Atlantic Avenue, who, besides being a practical man of 
large experience himself, employs none but thoroughly com- 
petent workmen, and as a result he has built up a large business 
in Atlantic City. His work always stands the test of time and 
weather, two important requisites in good plumbing. 



Edward S. Reed opened the first drug store in Atlantic City 
about April 1st, 1858, and for years his was the only store of the kind 
in the place. It is still the leading drug store in the upper portion 
of the island, and enjoys an extensive patronage. Mr. Reed erected 
the first brick building in Atlantic City, on Atlantic Avenue, oppo- 
site the United States Hotel, in which he still carries on his drug 
business. Educated for the medical profession, his ability as a 
druggist is recognized by physicians even at a distance, who send 
their prescriptions to him to be compounded. Great care is exer- 
cised in the prescription department of this store, and ?s none but 
fresh drugs are used, patrons have the satisfaction of knowing that 
they are getting a pure and efficacious medicine. Mr. Reed's 
handsome residence is at the corner of Atlantic and Delaware 
Avenues, adjoining his store. His son, Dr. E. L. Reed, has an 
office in this building. 



Upham's ice-cream saloon and bakery was established in 1879, an d 
is now one of the finest places of business in Atlantic City. There are 
two stores, one on Atlantic Avenue above Delaware, and the o f her at 
the corner of Tennessee and Atlantic Avenues, both of which are 
conveniently and handsomely fitted up. Visitors find here the best 
quality of ice-cream and cakes, and bread which has no superior 
anywhere. The proprietor has every facility for baking plain and 
fancy bread, pies, cakes, biscuits, crackers, etc., etc. Mr. Upham 
is a native of Massachusetts, but has been a resident of Atlantic 
City for several years, and is now one of her most progressive busi- 
ness men. 



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H. N. Bolte is one of the oldest and best-known of our Atlantic 
Cityjewelers. The business was established in 1864. Beinga thor- 
oughly practical watch and clock maker, Mr. Bolte is enabled to give 
his personal attention to that branch of his business. He carries a full 
stock of silverware, besides watches and clocks, and usually has a 
nice assortment of jewelry of all descriptions, gold, silver, shells, 
and other unique curiosities. Though the business was started in a 
small way, the thoroughness in watchmaking and repairing, and the 
discernment exercised in selecting those styles of jewelry which suit 
the taste of the people, has brought it to its present enviable posi- 
tion as the leading jewelry establishment in Atlantic City. Both in 
business and social circles Mr. Bolte occupies a prominent position, 
having been several times honored by his fellow-citizens with an 
election to City Council, of which body he is a useful member. 

Among the public-spirited citizens of Atlantic City none take 
higher rank than Mr. Charles A. Idler, the well-known plumber 
and paperhanger. After nearly twenty years' experience in Phila- 
delphia, he established his business in Atlantic City in 1880, and 
since that time has taken a prominent part in the various improve- 
ments of the city. During the past two or three years Mr. Idler 
has devoted much of his time to building operations, and a number 
of cottages erected by him are models of neatness and ornaments 
to the city. He recently erected some very pretty seaside villas at 
Chelsea, the new resort just below the built-up portion of the city 
and within the corporate limits. Designs for buildings are furnished, 
estimates given, and all work is executed in the best manner. Mr. 
Idler has done considerable work on many of the prominent build- 
ings of the island, the style and finish of which stamp him as a 
thorough workman. His business is divided into departments, such 
as paperhanging, plumbing, gasfitting, window shades, and paints. 
He makes a specialty of wall decoration, for which he employs 
none but skilled workmen, and as evidence of his ability in that 
direction he points with satisfaction to the many finely decorated 
walls of Atlantic City. The plumbing branch of his business is 
one in which he also takes considerable pride. His store, adjoin- 
ing the City Hall, is centrally located and easy of access from any 
part of the city. 

It is now nearly eight years since J. H. Crawford opened the 
first all-the-year-round dry goods and notions store in Atlantic City, 
at 1 107 Atlantic Avenue. Up to that time it was the custom of 
many of the leading storekeepers to close during the winter and re- 
open in the spring or early summer. Recognizing the needs of the 
permanent as well as the visiting population, Miss Crawford resolved 
to take a step in advance and try the experiment of keeping open 
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ings marking the site of the fire which destroyed an entire block. 
She had previously carried on an extensive business in ladies' cloaks 
and suits on Ninth Street above Market,' Philadelphia, where she 
was quite successful, and with her thorough knowledge of the busi- 
ness, thus acquired, her coming to Atlantic City supplied a " long- 
felt want." Her store is now in the centre of business, and her 
patrons find there everything usually found in a first-class dry goods 
and notion store. 



Mr. William F. Wahl, shoemaker and shoe dealer, started in 
business at 1613 Atlantic Avenue on the 1st of January, 1885. 
Being a practical shoemaker as well as shoe dealer, he soon estab- 
lished for himself a reputation among a class of people, both resi- 
dents and visitors, who desire a well-made and perfect-fitting shoe. 
His business has nearly doubled within a year, and his patrons 
include many of the best families of Philadelphia and elsewhere, 
who are in the habit of spending their summers in Atlantic City. 
Besides dealing in the best grades of manufactured shoes, Mr. Wahl 
gives personal attention to custom-made work, first selecting his 
leather with care, and then having the shoes made in a thoroughly 
workmanlike manner. His store is one of the most attractive in 
the city, and customers are treated with uniform politeness. 

Almost the first inquiry made by the speculative visitor to At- 
lantic City, after having read of the remarkable progress of the 
place and the consequent rise in property within the past ten years, 
is: " Where can I buy a lot ?" or " Who will sell me a cottage?" It 
is the old story — the man who hears of another's success wishes 
that he also may be given an opportunity. In the words of Mrs. 
Kidder : 

" Is there any money in it?" 

Asks the calculating man, 
" And shall I be sure to win it, 

If I join you in your plan?" m. 

In reply to this inquiry, we simply refer the reader to the well- 
known real estate agents, I. G. Adams & Co., of 2031 Atlantic 
Avenue ; Sternberger Brothers, of 131 2 Atlantic Avenue, and V. 
C. Bruckmann, of 1021 Atlantic Avenue, whose business brings 
them in daily intercourse with the owners and buyers of real estate. 
These gentlemen will cheerfully give all needed information upon 
the subject. 



Atlantic City is well supplied with plumbers and gasfitters ; but 
in this business, as in others, there is always room for one more, 
especially if he be of the right kind. Sanitary plumbing and good 
drainage are two of the first requisites of house building, and these are 
supplied by C. A. Devlan & Co., plumbers, gas and steam fitters, 
who recently engaged in business at i52Sand 1530 Atlantic Avenue. 



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The safest and most convenient shape in which the traveler to 
the seashore can place his money, before leaving home, is in the 
form of letters of credit or circular notes, payable at a local bank- 
ing institution. In Atlantic City there are two national banks 
where letters of credit may be made payable — the Atlantic City 
National Bank and the Second National Bank. The former occu- 
pies an imposing brick building at the corner of Atlantic and North 
Carolina Avenues, one square from the depot. It was chartered in 




ATLANTIC CITY NATIONAL BANK. 

the spring of 1881, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, and is 
regarded as one of the strongest banking institutions in the country, 
having a surplus nearly equal to its capital stock, besides paying an- 
nual dividends of eight per cent. The building is fully equipped with 
all the best appliances for the banking business, and is very care- 
fully and prudently managed. The president is Mr. Charles Evans,' 
and the cashier is Mr. Francis P. Quigley, with a board of nine 
directors. 



Henry Afflerbach, whose toy and stationery store is at the 
corner of Atlantic Avenue and Surf Place, began business in Atlan- 
tic City in 1882, having previously carried on a similar business on 
an extensive scale in Philadelphia. He came to this city on account 
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eluded to remain here permanently. Mr. Afflerbach is a large prop- 
erty owner, and is much interested in the material prosperity of the 
place. He has been successful in business, having one of the best 
stands in the city. His store is a favorite resort for ladies and 
children. 



The Second National Bank began business in January, 1887, with 
a capital of $100,000. A massive brick and stone building, of 
unique design, is now in course of erection at the corner of New 
York and Atlantic Avenues, and meantime the bank is occupying 




SECOND NATIONAL BANK. 



temporary quarters in the commodious building on the lot adjoin- 
ing, formerly used by the West Jersey Railroad Company. This 
bank began business with every promise of soon becoming another 
of the foremost banking institutions of the State. It is managed 
by a board of thirteen directors, with Mr. George F. Currie as 
president, and Mr. J. G. Hammer as cashier. The architect of 
the new building is Mr. Lindley Johnson, of Philadelphia. 



Mr. James Farley has had large experience in the boot and shoe 
business, and is well acquainted with every detail. Before coming to 



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this city he carried on an extensive business on Passyunk Avenue, 
Philadelphia, the Atlantic City store being opened as a branch of 
that establishment. Since beginning business in this city he has 
enjoyed a generous share of the patronage of residents and visitors. 
His assortment of goods will be found to embrace a full variety of 
ladies', gentlemen's, and children's boots and shoes, selected of 
manufacturers who have reputations for producing none but first- 
class goods. He is sole agent for the celebrated Day sewed shoe, 
which has had a wide sale wherever introduced. Purchasing his 
stock directly of first hands, and for cash or on short time, he is 
able to place his price at but a trifling advance on the cost, and at 
the same time guarantee his goods to be as represented. Mr. 
Farley's place of business is at 1623 Atlantic Avenue, a few doors 
above Illinois. 



Besides the two national banks, there is the Merchants' Bank, on 
Atlantic Avenue, above Illinois, which was chartered under the laws 
of the State, and began business in July, 1885. The institution 
does a general banking and safe-deposit business, allows interest 
on deposits, and issues drafts payable in any part of the world. The 
business of this bank has shown a steady increase, and it is evidently 
a fixture of Atlantic City. The directors are men of responsibility, 
the president being Mr. William Curtiss, a well-known business 
man of Philadelphia. The cashier is Mr. Joseph R. Flanigen, Jr., 
a gentleman of large experience in the banking business. 



Riley & Adams are well-known grocers at 2327 Atlantic Avenue, 
corner of Georgia Avenue. They began business four years ago, 
and soon built up a large trade among hotel men and cottagers in 
the l©wer part of the city. They are popular young men, and are 
winning success by deserving it. 



J. B. Alcorn, the baker, established himself in business ten years 
ago near his present location, 1825 Atlantic Avenue, below Indiana. 
He bakes neither pies nor cakes, but devotes his entire attention to 
bread baking, furnishing supplies to many of the larger hotels and 
principal cottagers throughout the city. 



After considerable experience in the meat and produce business 
at the Dock Street Market, Philadelphia, R. C. Griscom & Co. estab- 
lished the Keystone Market at the corner of Indiana and Atlantic 
Avenues, in this city, two years ago. They deal in none but the 
best meats and vegetables, and enjoy the patronage of many of the 
prominent cottagers and hotel-keepers. 



Hannis's restaurant, 1016 Atlantic Avenue, above Pennsylvania, 
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day and night, weekday and Sunday, ever since. It is the only 
" all night" restaurant in the city, and in the summer season espe- 
cially is a great convenience to visitors. 



George W. Holmes is one of the oldest and best known of the 
Atlantic City business men. He carries on an extensive plumbing, 
tin roofing, stove and hardware business at 1834 Atlantic Avenue, 
and, being thoroughly practical, gives personal supervision to his 
work and sees that it is done well. 



The leading tailor of Atlantic City is Mr. A. F. Sttegler, whose 
place of business is at 1310 Atlantic Avenue, below South Carolina. 
Ten or twelve years ago Mr. Stiegler, who is a native of Germany, 
founded his enterprise in Atlantic City, and soon took front rank 
among the business men of the place. He confines himself to cus- 
tom work, and is the representative merchant tailor of Atlantic 
City. On his counters may always be found a fine assortment of 
foreign and domestic cloths and cassimeres, selected with a view 
of meeting the wants and tastes of the public. Years of experience 
and a superior style of cutting and fitting enable Mr. Stiegler to 
give the highest satisfaction to his patrons. He recently returned 
from a prolonged trip through Europe, where he combined business 
with pleasure, purchasing a supply of foreign fabrics for the spring 
and summer season. 



J. S. Haslett's fancy stationery store and circulating library 
is at 1 1 22 Atlantic Avenue, a few doors above the Mansion 
House. It has been established nearly eight years and is one of 
the best patronized places of business on the island. The stock 
embraces staple and . fancy stationery, photographic views of 
Atlantic City, books, and a circulating library. The latter is well 
patronized by ladies and children. The store was recently en- 
larged to nearly double its former size, and is now about fifty feet 
deep. Visitors will find here everything usually found in the 
principal stationery stores of the larger cities. 



E. & R. Quinn are extensive importers of human hair goods in 
Philadelphia, whose branch store in Atlantic City is at 1006 Atlan- 
tic Avenue. They carry a full lme of the latest styles in bangs, the 
new Parisian coiffure, etc. Their store in this city is large and 
attractive, and customers are treated with uniform politeness. The 
Misses Quinn have had large experience in the arrangement of 
hair goods for ladies, their Philadelphia store, at 103 South Thir- 
teenth Street, being one of the leading stores in that city. 



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OFF THE AVENUE. 

The pharmacy of T. M. Galbreath, at the corner of New York 
and Pacific Avenues, was established in 1880 by H. C. Blair's 
Sons, of Philadelphia, who installed Mr. Galbreath as manager. 
Subsequently he purchased the business of the Blairs, and, at a 
later date, opened a branch store at Pacific and New Jersey 
Avenues, in charge of Mr. H. H. Deakyne, a former attache of 
the Blairs in Philadelphia. The prescription departments are im- 
portant adjuncts of the Galbreath pharmacies. It is well known 
that the work of the apothecary requiring the greatest care is the 
compounding of prescriptions. Realizing this, a separate place 
has been provided where nothing but the compounding of pre- 
scriptions is attended to. In this department every precaution has 
been taken to insure perfect accuracy. When a prescription comes to 
the department, there is sent with it what is known as an "order." 
On the order is written the name of the person wishing it filled, 
address, where to be sent, when received, who received it, who 
compounded it, who checked it, and the number of the prescrip- 
tion. This insures absolute safety to every patient, and the success 
that has attended this department shows full well its standing with 
physicians and the public. 



In the supplying of mortar, lime, and cement for the many new 
buildings erected in Atlantic City during the last twelve months 
Edwin A. Smith & Son report a large increase over the preced- 
ing year. Atlantic City never experienced a building season equal 
to that now closing, but still greater activity is looked for in the 
fall. This, of course, will create a still larger demand for lime 
and plaster, but Smith & Son are able to supply it at their works, 
Arctic Avenue, near South Carolina. 



Of building houses there seems to be no end — that is, if we con- 
fine our range of observation to Atlantic City. No sooner has the 
summer season ended than the carpenters, the bricklayers, the 
plumbers, and the plasterers are again at work, and house after 
house rises upon its foundation of sand, which experience has 
shown to be equal to the best bed-rock foundation in the country. 
From early fall until late in the spring the sound of the hammer, 
the click of the saw, and the ring of the trowel is heard in every 
direction, and one wonders where all the occupants of these new 
houses are to come from. That question has already been answered in 
this Hand-Book. The query now is, where does all the lumber 
and mill-work come from? and the reply is, much of it is supplied 
by Frambes, Somers & Co., whose planing mill is at Baltic and 
Missouri Avenues, the office being at the corner of Arctic Avenue 
and the Reading Railroad. The business of this firm was estab- 



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lished seven years ago, and has steadily increased in the interven- 
ing years, so that now they employ a force of twenty-five men. 
They are dealers in hard woods, wood mantels, and building lum- 
ber, and furnish a large portion of the mill-work for buildings 
erected in Atlantic City, besides supplying material for carpenters 
and builders in the surrounding country. 



After a successful business career of twenty-eight years in Cam- 
den, Mr. Adam Knauf moved to Atlantic City eight years ago, 
and established his boiler and machine works on Arctic Avenue 
below Michigan, adjoining the gas-works. He manufactures iron 
fencing and awning frames, repairs boilers, and does all kinds of 
galvanizing and machine work. Some of the prettiest and most 
substantial of the iron fences seen in Atlantic City are of his man- 
ufacture, and as his is the only place of the kind in the city, he 
enjoys a monopoly of the trade, although his prices are below 
those of Philadelphia manufacturers. This fact can readily be 
proven by a comparison of prices. Mr. Knauf's business has 
been largely increased during the past year, and the present year's 
work promises to be nearly double that of the preceding. He is 
deserving of the generous support of every property owner or 
business man in Atlantic Citv. 




Ground and About 



PLACES OF INTEREST IN AND NEAR ATLANTIC CITY, AND OTHER 
INFORMATION FOR VISITORS. 

*W* DMITTING that Atlantic City is the principal seacoast resort 
<TflTv of the country, and an object of pilgrimage for thousands 

A -*- of people from every walk of life and from every part of 
the land, it may be well to trace some of its attractions, and 
thus obtain some appreciation of its advantages and claims to con- 
sideration, which may assist in a proper estimate of its importance. 
The history of the place will not be herein considered, for how- 
ever interesting the historical features of this favorite locality, 
they take vastly inferior place when compared with its natural 
and artificial attractions. Here are to be found all the requisites 
which enter into the constitution of a complete seashore watering 
place. Aside from the attractions of land and sea — the drives, 
the beach, and boardwalk, the fishing, the yachting, and the 
bathing, the bracing air, and other attributes of the grand old 
ocean — aside from these, Atlantic City affords diversions of a sec- 
ular or religious character above and beyond those of any other 
seacoast resort. One can go a-shopping here, find books, papers, 
small wares, material for embroidery, painting, and drawing ; can 
visit a circulating library, or take an interest in the church of his 
choice, get acquainted with the minister, and help along the good 
work. If one chooses, he can give a private entertainment in the 
evening at either of the ocean parlors, which afford to the visitor 
a somewhere to go, an object and an end to an otherwise pur- 
poseless stroll along the strand. Atlantic City loDg since learned 
how best to provide for its summer and winter guests ; and it is 
now the business of the place to set forth its attractions, which 
are all in the direction of making one's stay delightful. 



THE BOARDWALK. 

To Atlantic City belongs the credit of having introduced what 
is now a feature of a dozen seaside resorts — the boardwalk. This 
was first built in 1870, five thousand dollars being raised for that 
purpose by the sale of city scrip. The venture was regarded in an 
unfavorable light by many of the conservative citizens, some of 
whom were large owners of real estate, but the younger men 

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carried the project through on money privately borrowed until the 
issue of the city's obligations could be legalized. The boardwalk 
was destroyed by severe storms in the winter of 1883-4, but was 
rebuilt in a more substantial manner in the spring of 1884 at a 
cost of less than ten thousand dollars. This walk, now about three 
miles in length, and extending from the Inlet to the Excursion 
House, is the distinctive feature of Atlantic City. It follows the 
contour of the beach just above the line of high-water mark, and 
is lighted with the electric light its entire length from the first of 
March to the middle of September. On a moonlight evening, 
when the beach is crowded with vehicles and the promenade 
thronged with pedestrians, Atlantic City presents a scene of gayety 
unequaled anywhere else in the country. 



THE LIGHTHOUSE. 

The lighthouse is an object of much interest at the northeastern 
end of the island, the house of the keeper, Major A. G. Wolf, 
facing Rhode Island Avenue. There are two assistant keepers, S. 
F. Adams and Frank T. Hills. The extreme height of the tower, 
from base to pinnacle, is one hundred and sixty-seven feet, to 
outside gallery one hundred and fifty feet, and to the focus of the 
lamp one hundred and fifty-nine feet. The ascent of the gallery is 
by two hundred and twenty-eight spiral steps. The lamp is what 
is known as Funck's mineral-oil lamp, with fixed white light of 
the first order, and from the deck of a vessel can be distinguished 
from other lights at a distance of twenty miles. The lighthouse 
is open to visitors from nine a. m. to twelve M. in summer time, 
and from eleven to twelve in the winter season, Sundays and 
stormy days excepted. 

English's History of Atlantic City gives a history of the light- 
house, from which we make this extract: The great number of 
wrecks that were continually occurring on the beach caused Dr. 
Jonathan R. Pitney and other gentlemen to turn their attention 
to the absolute necessity that existed for the erection of a light- 
house at Atlantic City. Between 1834 and 1840 the proposal was 
first agitated. After a great waste of trouble and money, a Con- 
gressional appropriation of five thousand dollars was at last voted 
upon the proviso that a satisfactory report should first be made by 
a competent official of the Naval Department. Commodore La 
Vallette was commissioned to make the report. He visited the 
beach, examined the coast, and requested a letter from Dr. Pitney 
on the subject. Notwithstanding the exertions of Dr. Pitney, the 
Commodore made an unfavorable report, and the lighthouse 
project slept for several years. In 1853, after the railroad had 
been surveyed, Dr. Pitney again agitated the subject. He circu- 
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articles in the newspapers. The result of these labors was the 
granting of an appropriation of thirty-five thousand dollars for a 
lighthouse. Thus Atlantic City has to-day one of the best light- 
houses in the country, which, with later improvements, cost up- 
ward of fifty thousand dollars. The tower of the lighthouse was 
first illuminated in January, 1857. 



LIFE-SAVING STATION. 

The Atlantic City Life-Saving Station is situated at Pacific and 
Vermont Avenues, and is in charge of Captain Amasa Bowen, with 
seven assistants. The present building was finished in December, 
1884, and is the finest life-saving station on the coast of the United 
States. It is a pretty Gothic structure with three rooms and a 
pantry on the first floor, and three rooms on the second. Above 
the roof there is a tower or lookout, where a constant watch is 
kept for vessels in distress. The building is open to visitors at 
all hours of the day, and the obliging captain or any of his 
assistants will take pleasure in explaining to any one the method 
of saving life and property from destruction by the fury of the 
elements. On the first clear day of each week the crew goes 
through an interesting drill with the mortar and lifeline, sea- 
car and surf-boat, beginning at eight o'clock in the morning. 

The first life-saving station established on this beach was opened 
nearly forty years ago, and was known as the Government Boat- 
House, with Ryan Adams as keeper. It stood near Connecticut 
and Pacific Avenues, about where the Ocean House now stands. 
When James Buchanan was elected President, Samuel Adams sue 
ceeded Ryan Adams, holding the position for five years, when 
Barton Gaskill was appointed by President Lincoln. He retained 
the position for sixteen consecutive years. When the improved 
system was adopted, in conformity with an act of Congress, 
approved June 18th, 1878, the station was moved to its present 
site, in the rear of the lighthouse. Captain Bowen has been the 
efficient keeper for the past eight years. 



UNITED STATES SIGNAL STATION. 

The United States Signal Station in Atlantic City is situated on 
Rhode Island Avenue, below Atlantic, nearly opposite the light- 
house, and is in charge of Mr. L. M. Tarr, Signal Observer. This 
station was opened December 10th, 1873, in the Government Life- 
Saving House, about one hundred yards from the lighthouse. Sub- 
sequently it was removed to its present location. The elevation 
of the barometer above the level of the sea is thirteen feet. The 
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on the northern end of the building. The anemometer, wind-vane, 
and rain-gauge are on well-exposed parts of the building. The 
station is supplied with a complete outfit for international signals. 
Visitors will be welcomed at any hour of the day by Signal Ob- 
server Tarr, who always finds pleasure in explaining the methods 
of conducting the signal service. 



BEACH THOROUGHFARE. 

The Thoroughfare is a sheet of water that abounds in the finest 
fish, oysters, crabs, and clams, and is the rendezvous of a 
fleet of graceful yachts, in which the visitor can cruise for pleasure 
or for fishing, either in the smooth water of the inlet or upon the 
briny waters of the Atlantic. Omnibuses will convey visitors either 
to Sykes' Wharf or Higbee's Bridge, where boats can be hired and 
fishing-tackle procured at a moderate charge. 



BRIGANTINE BEACH AND PETERS BEACH. 

Yachts leave the Inlet House daily, conveying passengers to 
Peters' Beach or Brigantine, both on the opposite side of the inlet. 
There are two large hotels on Brigantine and one on Peters' Beach. 
Mr. Alfred B. Smith, of the Brigantine House, is a hospitable land- 
lord, guarding carefully the comfort of his guests. His brother, 
Mr. Charles Smith, of Peters' Beach, is equally attentive to those 
who visit his house. The Peters' Beach House is delightfully 
located, and is a favorite rendezvous for those fond of boating, 
gunning, or fishing. Oysters are taken fresh from the water almost 
at the door of the house. It has cool rooms, fine verandas, and 
first-class accommodations for guests. It commands a full view of 
Atlantic City, and is only fifteen minutes' sail from the inlet. 



PARK BATHS AND SEASIDE OCEAN PARLOR. 

Two of the most important and attractive features of Atlantic 
City are the elegant and luxurious Park Baths and Winter Ocean 
Parlor and the Seaside Ocean Parlor, the former situated on the 
boardwalk, near the foot of Indiana Avenue, and the latter at the 
foot of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Here the invalid may enjoy, without exposure to the weather, the 
invigorating chemical rays of the sun, inhale the healthful saline 
breeze, and view the breakers as they roll upon the beach a few feet 
distant. By an admirable arrangement one may be comfortably 
seated upon the sand and enjoy the full benefit of the perfect sun- 
bath and sea-air. In nervous and paralytic affections the effect of 
this combination of the direct rays of the sun and the stimulating 
saline air are the most potential hygienic agents known. 



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During the winter and spring months, when many resort to Atlantic 
City to seek health or recreation from the cares of a busy life,, and 
listen to the soothing melody of the surf, they are frequently com- 
pelled to seek their hotels or cottages sooner than desirable, for 
want of a comfortable resting-place on the beach. This want is 
now supplied, and the Winter Ocean Parlor as well as the Seaside 
Parlor are in great favor. The main parlor of each is on the second 
floor of the building, surrounded by a roofed-in piazza overlooking 
the ocean, and affording an unobstructed view up and down the 
shore. It has a high, ornamented, and arched ceiling, and there 
is an annex which is used as a smoking-room for gentlemen. The 
room is handsomely carpeted and furnished. The regulations are 
such as to make these places at all times desirable for ladies and 
families, thus offering a comfortable protection while enjoying 
the entertainment by Neptune. Both parlors are lighted by gas, 
and can be secured for private entertainments in the evening. The 
lower and upper stories are inclosed in glass. 

The bath-house apartments comprise under one roof a large num- 
ber of separate dressing-rooms, which are designed to furnish the 
conveniences requisite for surf-bathing of a better class than the 
average bath-house appointments. At the Park Baths a hall seven 
feet wide extends through its length, covered by a skylight with open 
sidelights, which, with the dormer windows on either side, secures 
perfect ventilation. This is intersected by cross halls six feet wide, 
on which open the dressing-rooms ; these are large, tastily fitted 
up, and well ventilated. The regulations are such as will insure 
perfect propriety in every department and the convenience of 
guests. Robes are provided at both places of plain or stylish designs 
for gentlemen, ladies, and children. Special care has been taken in 
the selection of material and in the making to secure comfort and 
freedom from annoyance by faulty seams or fastenings. Everything 
of an immodest character is strictly avoided. Patrons on enter- 
ing will obtain from the office a ticket bearing the number of the 
room to which they are entitled, deposit their valuables, and secure 
the key to the safe compartment. 



HOT AND COLD BATHS. 

The hot sea-water baths are in great favor with visitors to Atlantic 
City, and invalids especially derive great benefit from them. Persons 
suffering from rheumatism have often been permanently cured. 
Freshnessand vigor are imparted to all who use them. They are better 
than medicines, and physicians recommend them. The old, reliable 
establishment of Kipple & McCann, at the sea end of Ocean 
Avenue, is fitted up with every convenience, and has a sun-parlor 
attached. Many prefer the hot baths to surf-bathing, even in sum- 
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pie & McCann's place is extensively patronized. Their sun-parlor 
is a rendezvous, a place of meeting, for boardwalk promenaders. 
At the office there is a register where guests at any hotel or board- 
ing-house are invited to register their names, by which means prompt 
delivery of telegrams and express packages is insured and their 
whereabouts made known to friends. The place thus becomes a 
bureau of information. 



THE MICHIGAN BUILDING. 



Thousands of people have noticed the attractive cottage of Barclay 
Lippincott on States Avenue, without knowing anything of its history. 
This building was purchased by Mr. Lippincott at the close of the 




MICHIGAN BUILDING. 



Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and removed to Atlantic 
City in sections. It was one of the most artistically designed and 
finely finished State buildings on the Centennial grounds, the airy 
and graceful proportions of the superstructure culminating in a 
high villa tower. The building is made of native Michigan woods, 
and the interior is adorned with rich engravings of oiled and 
polished wood of every variety grown in the State. A room on the 
second floor, used as a parlor at the Centennial, was a gem of com- 
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HANDSOME RESIDENCES. 

The Disston Villa, on Indiana Avenue, opposite the Brighton, is 
the finest private residence in Atlantic City. The head of the 
Disston family established a large business at Tacony, a northern 
suburb of Philadelphia. He made saws, and the impression got 
abroad that his saws were the best in the market. They sold rap- 
idly, and he grew very rich. He was an early believer in Atlantic 
City, and purchased the entire block between Park and Indiana 
Avenues, from Pacific to the sea. He died before he had enjoyed 
the beautiful home he had reared, and his widow and sons now 
occupy the niansion. It is an English country villa, with a pretty 
porte cochere facing the street. Other attractive residences similar 




to the Disston villa are to be seen on the principal avenues, nota- 
bly that of George Allen, at Pacific and Maryland Avenues, the 
Turner villa, at Pacific and Indiana Avenues, the Shirtcliffe 
cottage, on North Carolina Avenue, and what is commonly called 
the Ladner villa, though not now owned by any of that family, on 
States Avenue. Some of the finest residences in Atlantic City are 
dignified by no other name than cottage — a word which has under- 
gone great changes since its introduction into our language. It 
was originally used to convey the idea of something far less stylish 
than the buildings which are now known by that name. The old 
dictionary meaning of it is, " a small habitation for poor persons." 
The " habitations " which beautify the avenues of Atlantic City 
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heard from, inhabited by poor people. Most of them are exceed- 
ingly tasteful, and many are large enough to be called mansions 
rather than cottages. Quite a number are in " Queen Anne" 
style, whatever that is. A few are positively hideous, but the 
majority are exhibits of elegant and sensible architecture. 



ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART. 

This institution was first opened in a cottage on Connecticut 
Avenue in May, 1883, but in November following it was removed 
to its present location on Park Place, directly opposite the Disston 
villa. The school is conducted by the ladies of the Sacred Heart, 
and is an institution of learning of which Atlantic City may well 




ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART. 

feel proud. The grounds around the villa extend to the beach, 
and every facility is afforded the pupils for sea-bathing and 
healthful exercise in the open air. The building is heated with 
steam, and is furnished with all the modern improvements. Both 
boarding and day pupils are received, and the terms may be had 
on application to the Superior. These ladies devote themselves, 
also, to the education of a large number of children in their parochial 
school on Ohio Avenue. 



JACKSON S HOT BATHS. 

As an evidence of the estimation in which the hot sea-water 
baths are held it is only necessary to call attention to the fact that 
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modations for one hundred persons, besides treble that number of 
apartments for surf bathers. Jackson's Hot Bathsand Sun Parlor are on 
the boardwalk above Pennsylvania Avenue, adjoining the Seaside 
Ocean Parlor. These baths are fitted up in the most luxurious 
manner, and are convenient to the principal hotels and cottages. 
They are of inestimable value to invalids, especially those suffering 
from nervous affections and rheumatism. In weakness of the spine, 
kidney and bladder troubles they furnish prompt relief and effect 
a permanent cure. Invalids should avail themselves of their plea- 
surable effect and remedial advantage. 



THE OCEAN PIERS. 

The piers have been referred to at length in another chapter of 
this Hand-Book. Besides the always popular Applegate's, with its 
round of attractions, there are two other piers — Howard's Ocean 
Pier, six hundred feet long, and the new Iron Pier, over one thou- 
sand feet long — both equally popular in summer time. Select hops 
and excellent dramatic or operatic entertainments make up the 
attractions on these piers when Atlantic City puts on its gay sum- 
mer attire. Applegate's Pier has two decks, the upper one acting 
as a cover to the lower, besides which there is a fishing deck at 
the outer extremity, where there is generally good fishing the whole 
summer long. The entertainment hall is above the fishing deck. 
The Iron Pier has three pavilions, the largest having a seating 
capacity for nearly two thousand people. It was first opened to 
the public in the spring of 1886. Howard's was the first pier built 
in Atlantic City. Attached to Applegate's is an extensive photo- 
graph gallery — the largest on the island — which is liberally patron- 
ized by the resident and visiting population. It is a branch of the 
mammoth galleries at Eighth and Vine Streets, Philadelphia. 



OTHER SCHOOLS. 

Besides the four public schools of Atlantic City there is another 
private academy on Pennsylvania Avenue, below Atlantic, of which 
Rev. Jas. G. Shinn, A. M., a Presbyterian clergyman, is principal. 
It has been truly said that no more cogent reason is required to 
show the salubrity of the climate and the desirability of Atlantic 
City as an abiding place for all who esteem health a blessing 
than the number of children born within the island's sandy rim. 
When the school-bell calls them from home they swarm along the 
streets as numerous as fiddlers on the margin of a salt pond. 



Memoranda. 



POST-OFFICE. 

Atlantic Avenue, between North and South Carolina Avenues. 
Mails are generally ready for delivery at 1 1 a. m. ; 6 and 7 p. m. 
Mails close at 6.40 and 7.45 a. m. and 3.30 p. m. The Post-Office 
is open on Sundays from 11 to 12 a. m. and from 3 to 4 p. m. 



TELEGRAPH OFFICE. 



Main office in Mansion House, open from 7.30 to 10 p. m. There 
is also an office at the Hotel Brighton, which is open from 8 a. m. 
to 8 P. M., and on Sundays from 9 to 10 a. m. and 5 to 6 p. m. 



TELEPHONE OFFICE. 



Second story of Bank Building, corner of Atlantic and North 
Carolina Avenues. Open day and night. Connections with all 
parts of the city, the principal hotels, Longport, Brigantine, 
Philadelphia, and other cities. 



banks. 



Atlantic City National Bank, corner Atlantic and North Caro- 
lina Avenues. Capital, fifty thousand dollars. Began business 
May 23d, 1881. The present officers are: President, Charles 
Evans ; Cashier, Francis P. Quigley. 

Second National Bank, corner Atlantic and New York Avenues. 
Capital, one hundred thousand dollars. Began business January 
15th, 1887. President, George F. Currie; Vice-President, Benj. 
H. Brown ; Cashier, J. G. Hammer. 

Merchants' Bank, Atlantic Avenue, above Illinois. Capital, fifty 
thousand dollars. President, William Curtiss ; Cashier, Joseph R. 
Flanigen, Jr. 



CHURCHES. 

First Presbyterian Church, corner Pacific and Pennsylvania 
Avenues; Rev. William Aikman, D. D., Pastor. Morning service 
at 10.30 o'clock. 
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Church of the Ascension (Episcopal), corner of Kentucky and 
Pacific Avenues ; Rev. William Avery, Rector. Litany and sermon 
at 11. 

St. James P. E. Church, corner Pacific and North Carolina 
Avenues; no regular pastor. Morning service at 10.30. 

St. Nicholas (Roman Catholic), Pacific Avenue, below Tennessee ; 
Rev. J. J. Fedigan, O. S. A., Pastor. Every Sunday and Holy 
Day, Mass; June, 6.30 and 9.30; July and August, 5.30, 6.30, 
8.30, 9.30; rest of the year, 7.30 and 9.30. 

St. Monica (Roman Catholic), Atlantic Avenue, below Texas; 
Rev. J. J. Fedigan, Pastor. 

First M. E. Church, Atlantic Avenue, below Massachusetts ; Rev. 
J. A. Dilks, Pastor. Morning service at 10.30. 

St. Paul's M. E. Church, corner of Ohio and Arctic Avenues; 
Rev. C. K. Fleming, Pastor. Morning service at 10.30. 

First Baptist Church, Pacific Avenue, below Pennsylvania ; Rev. 
William E. Boyle, Pastor. Morning service at 10.30. 

German Presbyterian Church, corner Pacific and Ocean Avenues ; 
Rev. Paul H. Schnatz, Pastor. Morning service at 10.30. 

Friends' Meeting-House, corner of Pacific and South Carolina 
Avenues. 

Methodist Protestant Church, corner Baltic and Michigan 
Avenues. Morning service at 10.30. 

Colored Methodist Church, corner New York and Arctic 
Avenues ; also Ohio Avenue above Atlantic. 

Colored Baptist Church, Arctic, between Delaware and Mary- 
land Avenues. 

The hour of evening service at the different churches varies 
according to the time of the year. 



BOARD OF TRADE. 

This Association, organized in March, 1886, has for its objects 
the promotion of trade, the encouragement of intercourse among 
business men, the diffusion of information concerning the trade, 
manufactures, and other interests of Atlantic City, and the pro- 
motion and development of the hotel, boarding-house, commer- 
cial, industrial, and other interests of Atlantic City. George W. 
Sheppard is President, Alfred M. Heston, Secretary, and Wesley 
Robinson, Treasurer. Their meetings are held on the second Tues- 
day evening of each month in the Council Chamber. 

CITY COUNCIL. 

Council is composed often Councilmen and an Alderman, with 
the Mayor as presiding officer, who has a casting vote in case of a 
tie. Regular meetings are held every other Monday evening, in the 

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Council Chamber, City Hall. S. D. Hoffman is Mayor and Presi- 
dent of Council, with H. R. Albertson as City Clerk. The Clerk's 
office adjoins the Council Chamber. 



BOARD OF HEALTH. 



This body maintains a careful watch over the sanitary condition 
of Atlantic City. The President of the Board is George F. Currie, 
and the Secretary Dr. M. D. Youngman. William Read is the 
efficient Health Inspector. They meet every Thursday evening in 
the Council Chamber. 



PHYSICIANS. 

Leading physicians of Atlantic City are as follows : Dr. Board- 
man Reed, corner Pacific and North Carolina Avenues ; Dr. T. K. 
Reed, 24 North Pennsylvania Avenue ; Dr. E. A. Reiley, 5 South 
Pennsylvania Avenue ; Dr. M. D. Youngman (homceopathist), 
Pacific, above Illinois Avenue ; Dr. John E. Sheppard, corner 
Pacific and Kentucky Avenues. 



CLERGYMEN. 



Rev. Dr. Wm. Aikman (Presbyterian), 120 States Avenue ; Rev. J. 
J. Fedigan (Catholic), corner Tennessee and Pacific Avenues; Rev. 
William H. Avery (Episcopal), 28 Kentucky Avenue ; Rev. William 
E. Boyle (Baptist), 28 Surf Place; Rev. Joseph A. Dilks (Metho- 
dist), 30 North Delaware Avenue. 



LAWYERS. 



Slape & Stephany, 1 1 1 2 Atlantic Avenue ; Thompson & Endicott, 
1122 Atlantic Avenue; James B. Nixon, Bank Building, Atlantic 
and North Carolina Avenues; Samuel E. Perry, 1803 Atlantic 
Avenue; Samuel D. Hoffman, Virginia Avenue, below Atlantic, 
also Mayor's office; George T. Ingham, City Hall, Atlantic and 
Tennessee Avenues. 



REAL ESTATE AGENTS. 



I. G. Adams & Co., 2031 Atlantic Avenue; V. C. Bruckmann, 
102 1 Atlantic Avenue ; Sternberger Brothers, 131 2 Atlantic Avenue. 



THE INTELLIGENT SEA GULL. 



At times the ocean flows in like a river, leaving a fringe of foam 
along the beach as it recedes; and again, after a storm, it comes 



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booming in with battling, foaming waves as far as the eye can see. 
Then the sea gulls gather along the shore, now riding on the waves 
and now dashing through the spray, now wading in the water and 
now suddenly rising into the air, and as suddenly dropping on 
the sand. What is the object of these movements ? When the 
waves are high clams are washed up on the beach and left there. 
They immediately put out their little claws and use them as spades 
to bury themselves from sight and danger. If a gull should ap- 
proach they close their shells for protection. The bird, thus set at 
defiance, pounces upon the clam, rises with it in the air to the 
height of thirty or forty feet, and then drops it on the hard sand, 
when the shell is broken, making it an easy prey for its ravenous 
enemy. 



INLET. 



Sailing and fishing boats in charge of experienced captains can be 
hired by the day or by the hour. The sail through the bays or out 
to sea is delightful, and the fishing is generally very good. The rates 
per hour for parties is twenty-five cents apiece. The yachtsmen 
are prohibited by law from taking more than thirty passengers at 
one time. Yachts can be chartered by the day for from five to ten 
dollars. 



RAILROAD DEPOTS. 

West Jersey and Atlantic, South Carolina Avenue, above 
Atlantic. 

Camden and Atlantic, South Carolina Avenue, between Atlantic 
and Arctic. 

Philadelphia and Atlantic City, Atlantic Avenue, between 
Arkansas and Missouri Avenues. 

Longport and South Atlantic City, corner Arkansas and Atlantic 
Avenues. 



SECRET AND OTHER SOCIETIES. 

Trinity Lodge, No. 79, F. and A. M.; meets on Tuesday evenings 
in Masonic Hall, Atlantic, above North Carolina Avenue. 

American Star Encampment, No. 8, I. O. O. F.; meets in Bart- 
lett's Hall the first and third Monday evening in each month. 

American Star Lodge, No. 148, I. O. O. F.; meets on Thursday 
evenings in Masonic Hall. 

Atlantic Lodge, No. 5, I. O. R. M.; meets on Thursday even- 
ing in Mason's Hall. 

Seaside Division, No. 142, S. of T. ; meets on Monday evenings 
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Atlantic City Council, No, 45, Sons of Progress; meets first and 
third Tuesday evenings in each month in Mason's Hall. 

Webster Lodge, No. 92, K. of P.; meets Wednesday evenings in 
Mason's Hall. 

Pequod Tribe, No. 470, I. O. R. M. ; meets on Friday evenings in 
Masonic Hall. 

Ocean Castle, No. 11, Knights of the Golden Eagle; meets on 
Monday evenings in Masonic Hall. 

Ocean Commandery, No. 3, K. G. E.; meets on Tuesday even- 
ings in Albrecht's Hall. 

Firemen's Relief Association; meets monthly in the Mayor's 
office. 

Women's Christian Temperance Association ; meets monthly in 
Keystone Hall, Indiana and Atlantic Avenues. 

Atlantic Circle, No. 12, Ladies of the Grand Army of the 
Republic ; meets on the first and third Friday evenings of each 
month in Bartlett's Hal!. 

Lyra Singing Society ; meets at Exchange Place, on South Caro- 
lina Avenue, on Wednesday evenings. 

American Legion of Honor, George F. Currie Council, No. 1075 > 
meets over Wolsieffer's store on the second Wednesday evening of 
each month. 

Ocean Spray Lodge, No. 20, M. L.; meets every Tuesday even- 
ing in Bartlett's Hall. 

Atlantic Lodge, No. 10, A. O. U. W.; meets in Bartlett's Hall 
on the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month. 

Branch No. 223, Order of Iron Hall ; meets over 1022 Atlantic 
Avenue, on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each 
month. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

Chief, Charles S. Lackey; Assistants, P. F. Hagan and Isaac C. 
Covert. 

United States Fire Company, No. 1 ; rear of City Hall. Organ- 
ized in 1874. 

Atlantic Fire Company, No. 2 ; Missouri Avenue, above Atlantic. 
Organized June 15th, 1882. 

Neptune Hose Company, No. 1 ; Atlantic Avenue, above Con- 
necticut. Organized October 2d, 1882. 

Good Will Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1 ; Arkansas 
Avenue, between Atlantic and Arctic. Organized January 16th, 
1886. 

MILITARY COMPANIES. 

Joe Hooker Post, No. 32, G. A. R.; meets the second and fourth 
Tuesday evening in each month, at Masonic Hall. 



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Colonel H. H. Janeway Camp, No. 11, S. of V.; meets the 
second and fourth Tuesday evening in each month in Bartlett's 
Hall. 

Battery A, Seacoast Artillery, National Guard of New Jersey ; 
meets every Tuesday evening in City Hall for drill. 

Logan Cavalry Cadets; meets on Thursday evening in room 
opposite the Reading Railroad Depot. 

Morris Guards (organized March, 1887). Membership 100. 



RATES FOR CARRIAGES AND HORSES. 

Carriage with two horses, with driver, one dollar and fifty cents 
per hour ; carriage with two horses, without driver, two dollars per 
hour ; carriage with one horse, without driver, one dollar per hour ; 
cart with one horse, without driver, one dollar and fifty cents per 
hour ; saddle horse, one dollar per hour ; carriages to or from rail- 
road depot (one or two persons), distance one mile, fifty cents ; 
additional passenger, twenty-five cents ; more than a mile (one or 
two persons), not exceeding two miles, one dollar ; additional 
passenger, twenty-five cents ; street cars and omnibuses from Inlet 
to Excursion House, along Atlantic Avenue, six cents. 



BATHING RATES, ETC. 



Hot sea-water baths, fifty cents — three tickets for one dollar ; 
surf baths, with bathing suits, twenty-five cents ; surf baths with 
your own bathing suit, fifty cents per week. 



BOATS FOR HIRE. 



At boat houses on the Thoroughfare, according to size of boat 
and number of persons, from twenty-five cents to one dollar per 
hour. 



PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 

Applegate's Pier, foot of Tennessee Avenue ; New Iron Pier, 
foot of Massachusetts Avenue ; Howard's Ocean Pier, foot of Ken- 
tucky Avenue; Schaufler's Garden, North Carolina Avenue ; Al- 
brecht's Garden, Atlantic, below Illinois Avenue ; Virginia Opera 
Garden, Virginia, below Atlantic Avenue ; Olympian Opera House, 
foot of South Carolina Avenue ; Fortescue Rink, foot of Arkansas 
Avenue; City Hall, Tennessee and Atlantic Avenues. 



DRIVES. 



Beach drive, at low tide, ten miles ; to Longport or Great Egg 
Harbor Inlet, eight miles ; the Elephant or South Atlantic City, 



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five miles ; Absecon Inlet and Lighthouse, two miles ; Pacific 
Avenue drive, three miles to Chelsea. It is intended soon to 
extend this last drive to Longport, thus making its entire length ten 
miles. 



CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 

Children's Seashore House, at the ocean end of Ohio Avenue. 
See description in "Around and About." 

Gurney Cottage, a sanitarium for the treatment of nervous affec- 
tions and mild cases of mental disease, under the care of the Mana- 
gers of the Friends' Asylum at Frankford, Philadelphia. It is 
situated on Virginia Avenue, below Pacific, and is well adapted to 
care for such cases as it designs to receive. 

Mercer Memorial Home, for Invalid Women, Pacific Avenue, 
corner of Ohio. (See description in " Around and About.") 



CLUBS. 



Bay View Club, house at Longport; Independent Bay Club, at 
South Atlantic City ; Kensington Bay Club, at South Atlantic City ; 
Knickerbocker Club, 1803 Atlantic Avenue ; Owl Boat Club, at 
South Atlantic City ; West Side Club, at Higbee's Bridge, on 
Thoroughfare ; Higbee Fishing Club, at Higbee's Bridge, on Thor- 
oughfare ; Ours Boat Club, house on Thoroughfare. 



WATER-WORKS. 

The Atlantic City Water-Works are situated on the mainland, 
near Pleasantville, six miles from the city, the water supply being 
obtained from a stream of spring water in the vicinity, augmented 
by a system of wells, numbering forty. The Company has a secon- 
dary pumping station near Absecon, which is used during the sum- 
mer months only. Its engine power or pumping capacity is one 
million five hundred thousand gallons every twenty-four hours, 
while that of the main pumping station is three million gallons. 
The water is conveyed through pipes laid across the meadows to 
the standpipe at Baltic and Ohio Avenues, the capacity of which 
is five hundred thousand gallons. The consumption of water last 
year in Atlantic City was over one hundred million (100,000,000) 
gallons. The present year will show a large increase in the con- 
sumption, and the Company is now considering a proposition to 
extend its plant. The President of the Company is Walter Wood, 
of Philadelphia. Mr. George T. Prince is Superintendent. 

A syndicate composed of leading citizens is now sinking an 
artesian well at Arctic and Michigan Avenues, with a view of sup- 
plying the city with water. The pipes are now down to a depth of 
about a thousand feet, and a flow of pure water is looked for soon. 



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GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT. 

Atlantic City is lighted with both gas and electricity. The Gas- 
Works, which were completed in June, 1878, are located on Michi- 
gan Avenue, near Arctic. The Company has one forty-horse power 
boiler, one large gasometer with a capacity of one hundred 
thousand cubic feet, one with a capacity of fifty thousand, and 
another of twenty-five thousand. The present capacity of the works 
is one hundred and fifty thousand cubic feet per day, but at this 
writing (March, 1887), arrangements are being made to increase 
this capacity to two hundred and fifty thousand cubic feet. The 
consumption of gas has more than doubled since 1883. 

Connected with the Gas-Works, and operated by the same Com- 
pany, is an electric arc light plant, which was established in the 
summer of 1882. This plant furnishes light for the boardwalk and 
Atlantic Avenue, besides a number of hotels and public buildings. 
There are two engines and three boilers, with one-hundred-and- 
fifty-horse power, and ten ten-light dynamos. 

The city is also supplied with electric light from the Edison in- 
candescent burners by a company whose works are on Arctic 
Avenue, near Kentucky. They have three engines, with two hun- 
dred-and-fifty-horse power, three boilers with three-hundred-horse 
power, and six dynamos capable of supplying two thousand five 
hundred and sixty lamps. The Company will increase its plant 
during the present year. 



VOLUNTEER LIFE GUARDS. 

Bradford Brothers, on beach, between New York and Indiana 
Avenues ; Rutter Brothers, on beach, foot of States Avenue ; 
Charles E. Clark, on the beach, above Missouri Avenue ; J. W. 
Langley, on beach, below Missouri Avenue. 



AUTHOR, POET, AND STATESMAN. 

Atlantic City has never been the home of a prince, but she can 
boast of her poet, her author, and her statesman. The pioneer 
poetess was Mrs. Rachel Rhodes, whose husband was the first alder- 
man of the place. She came to this city before the completion of 
the railroad, and died here about 1874. She was the author of a 
novel entitled Zuleika, and of a volume of poems which gained 
some celebrity. The poetess of the present day is Mrs. Sara Louisa 
Oberholtzer, whose summer home is at Longport. She has written 
a number of works of prose and poetry, published by Lippincott, 
among which are Violet Lee, Come for Arbutus, Hope 's Heart 
Bells, and Daisies of Verse. One of her poems is printed in another 
part of this Hand-Book. Her winter home is at Norristown, Pa. 



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Rev. William Aikman, D. D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of this city, is an author of some note, having written 
several works of fiction, besides numerous pamphlets and religious 
essays. Two of his best works are, A Bachelor' 's Idea of Married 
Life, and Life at Home. 

The works of Dr. Aikman and of Mrs. Oberholtzer are sold at 
the bookstore of J. H. Wolsieffer, adjoining the Post-Office. 

The statesman of Atlantic City is Hon. John J. Gardner, whom 
Historian English calls "the bare-foot boy." He is the architect 
of his own fortune, and his life is a splendid illustration of the pos- 
sibilities which lie in the pathway of every ambitious and indus- 
trious young man. He is now serving his fourth term as a member 
of the New Jersey State Senate, of which he is the recognized leader, 
and of which he was President in 1883. 



HOW THE CITY WAS NAMED. 

Various names were suggested at the time of the founding of 
Atlantic City, among which were Ocean City, Sea Beach, Surfing, 
Strand, and Bath, but the directors could not agree upon any of 
these. In January, 1853, at another meeting of the Board, the 
surveyor, Mr. R. B. Osborne, submitted a map of the proposed 
"bathing village," on which was engraved in large letters the words 
"Atlantic City." This title was at once approved by the Board, 
and on that day Atlantic City came into existence on paper. It 
was incorporated on March 3d, 1854. The cognomen, " City by 
the Sea," was given by Abraham Browning, Esq., of Camden, in 
an after-dinner speech at the United States Hotel, before eight 
hundred guests of the company, on the opening day, July 1st, 
1854. 



THE OLDEST HOUSE. 



The oldest house in Atlantic City is that known as the Atlantic 
House, on Baltic Avenue, near Massachusetts, which was built 
about the year 181 2, but which has since been enlarged. It 
originally stood near the Thoroughfare, at Baltic and Florida 
Avenues, but was moved to its present site. 



THE OLDEST INHABITANT. 

Philip Lyons, who lives at the corner of Illinois and Arctic 
Avenues, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest inhabitant of 
Atlantic City. His age is 101; and he gives promise of living 
several years longer. When a young man of eighty or thereabouts, 
in fact, while a youth of sixty, he was an active Odd Fellow, hav- 
ing joined the order in the early part of the present century. His 



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picture has for years hung upon the wall of the lodge-room of 
American Star Lodge, of this city. Mr. Lyons is the father of 
twenty-four children, many of whom are still living. 



FIRST BATH-HOUSE. 

Long before the building of the railroad the young people of 
the villages on the mainland used to come to this beach in parties 
to bathe. They had no bath-house, but went among the sand-hills 
to disrobe. Ryan Adams, who lived on the island, built for them 
what he called a bath-house. It was nothing more than a frail 
inclosure of brush. The first real bath-house of which there is any 
account was built by Manasa McClees, at the foot of Massachusetts 
Avenue, in 1854. 



ACCRETIONS AND ENCROACHMENTS. 

The beach front of Atlantic City undergoes a change from year 
to year, both by accretions and encroachments of the sea. The 
lighthouse was for years threatened with destruction by the en- 
croaching sea, until the Government built a series of jetties in 1876, 
thereby diverting the currents. But while abrasion is taking place 
at one point accretion is going on at another, so that what one 
part of the island loses another part gains. The present site of 
the Seaside House and Haddon Hall was washed by the tides as 
recently as 1870, and further down the beach the sea covers the 
site of blocks and lots for which deeds were recorded as late as 
1865. Some over-wise people predict that the entire island will be 
resigned to the waves ere the close of the twentieth century. Like 
the philosopher Hutton, of the last century, they might as well 
terrify themselves with the thought that the whole earth must be 
eventually washed away by the force of the rain, the rivers, and the 
mountain torrents, until it dissolves itself in the ocean ! The one 
is about as likely to happen as the other ; and either idea sur- 
passes in sublimity that of the chicken-hearted damsel of antiquity, 
who wept herself into a fountain, or of the good dame of Nar- 
bonne, described by Washington Irving, who was required to peel 
five hundred thousand ropes of onions, and who actually run out 
at her eyes before half the task was accomplished. The story is 
ridiculous, but not more so than the idea that this isle, whereon now 
stands the famous city of Atlantic City, must one day be washed 
away by the sea. 



SHELLS AND GRASSES. 

A stroll along the strand at any hour of the day will generally 
repay the collector of sea-shells and marine grasses. A variety of 



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shells are crumpled beneath the feet at almost every tread, and 
myriad specimens of marine grasses or sea algae are revealed to the 
practiced eye. The latter, when cleaned and placed upon sheets 
of white paper or cardboard, are found to be of exceedingly deli- 
cate formation and color. They illustrate the beauty and perfec- 
tion of Nature's handiwork. 



wrecks. 

There is not a mile of this beach that has not been the scene of 
a shipwreck at one time or another. Some places have witnessed 
many terrible marine tragedies during their association with human 
existence, and the beach has been thickly strewn with the bodies of 
those who have made sad landing thereon. There are ill-fated 
crafts whose hulls even now lie half-buried in the sands, rotting 
under the sky. One of these, that of the schooner Anson Stinson, 
which came ashore in 1880, may be seen on the beach, just below 
the Excursion House. 



STORM SCENES. 

Nowhere else on the coast of this country can an ocean storm be 
seen to better advantage than in Atlantic City, and one who has 
looked upon Old Ocean during a nor'easter, with the surf rolling 
in grandly, under and beyond the boardwalk, has learned some- 
thing of the forces of Nature, and witnessed her tragic perform- 
ances in a theatre whose resources are grand beyond the power of 
man to describe. 

COST OF LIVING. 

While the price of board at the hotels and boarding-houses is 
somewhat cheaper than at other resorts, the expense of housekeeping 
in Atlantic City does not vary much from that of other cities. 
Rents are moderate, and articles of food are about the same as 
elsewhere, excepting fish and oysters, which are much lower. 
Vegetables, melons, meats, groceries, etc., are no higher here than 
in Philadelphia or New York. As in other cities, if one intends 
spending a whole or a portion of the year here, it is better to rent a 
cottage, but if the stay is to be brief, the comforts of a home can 
always be had at any of the numerous hotels or boarding-houses. 



So then, beach, bluff, and wave, farewell ! 

I bear with me 
No token stone, nor glittering shell ; 
But long and oft shall memory tell 
Of this brief, thoughtful hour of musing by the sea. 

— Whit tie > 



jlotels and Boarding-jJouses in Atlantic City. 



For the location of the principal houses see the advertising pages of this Hand-Book. 



Name of House. 



Albion, 

Aberdeen (Longport), 

Aldine, 

Acme, 

Argyle, 

Avondale, 

Ashland, 

Arlington, 

Atglen, 

Allen 

Altmaier, 

Arcade, 

Alvin, 

Ariel, 

Angora, 

Albrecht's, . . . , . 

Anson, 

American, 



Brighton, . . 
Berkeley, . . 
Bellevue, . . 
Beaconsfield, 
Bedloe, . . . 
Brunswick, . 
Bailey, . . . 
Beach, . . . 
Berges, . . . 
Baltimore, . 
Brady, . . . 
Briscoe, . . 
Beaumont, . 
Bowker's, 
Bradley, . . 
Beyer's, . . 
Bryn Mawr, 



Congress Hall, . 
Chalfonte, . . . 
Colonnade, . . . 
Clarendon, . . . 
Chester County. 
Cramer, .... 
Champion, . . . 
Chatham, .... 
Central, . . . 
Clifton, .... 
Cheteroade, . . . 
Continental, . . 
Columbia, .... 
Capital, .... 
Congress Cottage, 
Cataract, . , . . 
Collotty's, . . . 
Crumbie, .... 
Constitution, . . 
Cincinnati, . . . 
Crescent, .... 
Charter Oak, . . 

Clyde, 

Castle, .... 
Chopple, .... 



Dennis, . . . 
Dudley Arms, 



Sleeping 
Rooms. 



163 



i5 
27 
36 
13 
18 
40 
18 
10 
15 

220 
87 
65 
40 
80 
20 
16 
18 
48 

3 

10 
10 
40 
43 
10 
36 



16 



125 
40 



Rate per Day. 



1 5o 
1 50 
1 25 
1 5° 
2 
1 50 

1 50 

3 00 
3 00 

2 00 

1 50 

1 50 

2 00 

1 5o 

2 00 
1 5o 
1 25 



50 
to 
00 
to 
to 
to 
50 
00 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
00 
to 
to 

to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
to 
<z 00 

3 tO 

3 tO 

3 tO 

3 tO 

3 tO 



50 to 

50 to 

50 to 

50 to 

00 to 

2 50 



2 CO 
2 OO 

5 00 
4 00 
2 50 
2 00 
2 00 
2 50 
2 00 
2 50 
2 00 
2 00 

2 50 
2 50 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 
2 50 



3 00 

3 00 

3 00 

2 00 to 2 75 



3 50 
3 00 
2 50 



Rate per Week. 



12 00 
8 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 

8 00 

9 00 
10 00 

8 00 
10 00 
8 00 
8 00 
8 00 
8 00 
10 00 
8 00 
8 00 

18 00 
15 00 
10 00 
8 00 



8 00 

to 00 

to 00 

[o 00 to 
8 00 to 
8 00 to 



10 00 
10 00 
8 00 
8 00 
8 00 
8 00 



3 5o 



10 00 to 

15 00 to 

15 00 to 

12 OO tO 

12 OO tO 

IO OO to 

12 OO 

IO OO to 

12 OO tO 

8 00 to 

10 00 to 

8 00 to 
8 00 

10 00 to 

15 00 to 

12 00 to 

10 00 to 



18 00 

12 OO 

15 00 
15 00 

15 OO 

15 00 
15 00 

12 OO 

to 00 
15 OO 
IO OO 
IO OO 

IO 00 
12 OO 
12 OO 
IO OO 
IO OO 

50 OO 
20 OO 

15 00 

IO OO 
IO OO 
12 OO 
15 OO 

12 OO 
IO OO 

10 OO 

15 OO 

15 00 
10 00 

IO OO 

10 00 

12 OO 

20 OO 
20 00 
20 OO 

16 OO 
15 OO 
12 OO 



8 OO 

8 00 



12 OO 

18 00 

12 OO 

15 00 

12 OO 



15 00 
18 OO 

18 00 

15 00 

IO OO 

10 00 
10 00 



00 to IO OO 



8 00 
8 00 



to IO OO 
to IO OO 



Time Open. 



Summer Season. 



All the 
Summer 



All the 



Year. 
Season. 



Year. 



15 00 to 25 00 
12 00 to 15 00 



Summer Season. 

All the Year. 
Summer Season. 

All the Year. 
Summer Season. 

All the Year. 
Spring and Summer. 



Summer Season. 



Spring and Summer. 

All the Year. 

Summer Season. 

All the Year. 



Summer Season. 



All the Year. 
Summer Season. 



All the Year. 
Summer Season. 



All the Year. 



131 



132 Illustrated Hand- Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 



Name of House. 



Delavan, . . . 
Denver, . . . 

Elberon, . . . 

Emerson, . . . 

Elk ton, . . . 
Edgewater, 

Emmett, . . . 

Elsinore, , . . 

Eagle, . . . . 

Edison, . . . . 

Erard, . . . . 

Evers, . . . . 

Florida, . . . 
Fothergill, . . 
Fortescue, . . 
Field Cottage, 
Fleming, . . . 

Gilsey, . . . . 

Girard, . . . . 

Grand Union, . 

Glenellie, . . . 

Grand View, . 

Glendale, . . . 

Glenville, . . . 

Garfield, . . . 

Grove, . . . . 

Galway, . . . 

Georgia Ave , . 

Globe, . . . . 

Glenburnie, . . 

Geneva, . . . 

Haddon Hall, 

Hygeia, . . . 

Harmony, . . 

Heckler's, . . 

Herzer's, . . . 

Hagan's, . . . 

Havelow, . . . 

Hannis', . . . 

Holmes, . . . 

Hudson, . . . 

Ingleside, . . . 
Idlewylde, . . 
Island, . . . . 

Jackson, . . . 

Kingston, . . 
Kumpfs, . . . 
Kuehnle's, . . 
Kentucky, . . 
Kensington, . 
Keystone, . . 

La Pierre, . . 
Lancaster, . . 
Lansdale, . . . 

Lynn 

Liddlesdale, . . 
Leeds* Cottage 
Lochiel, . . . 
Lafayette, . . 
Leedom's, . . 
Lincoln, . . . 
Leola, . . . . 



Sleeping 
Rooms. 



Rate per Day. Rate per Week. 



45 



$2 50 to $3 00 , $15 00 to $20 00 

2 CO 8 OO tO 12 CO 



Time Open. 



Summer Season. 



40 


2 


So 


to 3 00 


15 OO 


to 


20 00 




63 


2 


00 


tO 2 50 


12 OO 


to 


15 CO 


All the Year. 


50 






Terms 


Moderate. 




" 


24 


2 


00 


to 2 50 


10 00 


to 


15 00 


" 


26 


1 


So 


to 2 00 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


Summer Season. 


20 


1 


SO 


to 2 00 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


All the Year. 


24 


1 


So 


to 2 00 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


3« 


1 


50 


to 2 00 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


36 




2 


00 


9 00 


to 


12 OO 


'* 


5b 


1 


5o 


to 2 00 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


it 


60 


2 


.So 


to 3 00 


12 OO 


to 


18 OO 


« 


30 




2 


50 


10 00 


to 


15 OO 


M 


50 




e 


50 


10 OO 


to 


15 OO 


Summer Season. 


8 


1 


SO 


to 2 00 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


17 


1 


5o 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


All the Year. 


30 




2 


50 


10 00 


to 


15 00 


Summer Season. 


40 


2 


OO 


tO 2 50 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


All the Year. 


20 


2 


OO 


tO 2 50 


10 00 


to 


15 00 


" 


13 


1 


So 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


i5 


2 


00 


tO 2 50 


10 00 


to 


15 00 


Summer Season. 


10 


1 


So 


to 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


25 


2 


OO 


tO 2 SO 


10 00 


to 


15 00 


All the Year. 


8 




I 


50 


8 


OO 




" 


10 


1 


SO 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


Summer Season. 


18 


2 


OO 


tO 2 50 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


All the Year. 


36 


1 


50 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


Summer Season. 


30 


1 


SO 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


14 


1 


50 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


14 


1 


50 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


" 


[06 


3 


OO 


to 4 00 


18 00 


to 


30 OO 


All the Year. 


24 


2 


OO 


tO 2 50 


10 00 


to 


15 OO 




3« 


1 


2S 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 




28 




2 


OO 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


" 


ib 


1 


75 


tO 2 OO 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


" 


25 




2 


SO 


1 


2 OO 






15 


1 


So 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


12 OO 


\ \ 


30 


1 


SO 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


Summer Season. 


24 


1 


50 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


15 


1 


SO 


tO 2 OO 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


All the Year. 


14 


2 


00 


tO 2 50 


10 OO 


to 


15 00 


" 


36 


1 


50 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 OO 


Summer Season. 


35 


3 


OO 


to 3 50 


15 00 to 


18 CO 


" 
















All the Year. 


30 


1 


50 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


12 OO 


" 


40 


2 


OO 


tO 2 50 


12 00 


to 


16 00 


" 


33 




2 


50 


12 00 


to 


18 OO 


Summer Season. 


10 




I 


25 




s 00 




" 


17 




2 


OO 


12 00 






25 




2 


SO 


15 OO 




" 


1 


2 


OO 


tO 2 50 


10 OO 


to 


15 00 


" 


33 


2 


OO 


tO 2 50 


10 OO 


to 


12 OO 


" 


20 




2 


OO 


12 OO 


to 


15 OO 


Spring and Summer 


12 




2 


OO 


12 OO 


to 


15 OO 


All the Year. 


3° 


1 


So 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


12 OO 


' 4 


12 




2 


50 


1 


5 00 




Summer Season. 


11 




1 


75 


x 


3 1 K 1 




All the Year. 


24 


1 


So 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


IO OO 


Summer Season. 


23 


1 


5o 


tO 2 OO 


8 00 


to 


IO OO 





Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 1^3 



Name of House. 



Mansion, 

Margate, 

Minnequa, .... 
Manhattan, .... 

Mentone, 

Metropolitan, . . . 
Malatesta's, . . . 

Monroe, 

Montgomery, . . . 
Maryland, .... 
Monumental, . . . 

Melos, 

Mears', 

Mechanic, .... 
Mullarkey, .... 

Melrose, 

Marion, 

Miller's, 

Memorial, .... 

Nelson, 

New York, .... 
Norman's Cottage, 
New Inlet, .... 
Nuttall, 

Osborne, 

Ocean Villa, . . . 
Ocean House, . . . 

Oakland, 

Orion, 

Old Inlet, 

Putnam, 

Peon Mansion, . . 
Pembroke, .... 
Penn Cottage, . . . , 
Porter Cottage, . . 

Pacific, 

Patton, 

Parnell, ...... 

Philadelphia, . . . , 
Pittsburgh, . . . . , 

Peters' Beach House 

Quaker City, ... 

Royal, 

Rossmore, 

Ruscombe, 

Radnor, 

Radcliff, 

Revere, , 

Renovo, 

Ryan's, 

Read, 

Ridgway, 

Seaside, 

Shelburne, 

Sea Bright, 

Stockton, 

Senate, 

Schaufler's, 

Sea View, 

St. Charles, 

St. Clair, 

Sherman, 

St. George, 

Stafford, 



Sleeping 
Rooms. 



200 
5i 

100 
24 
25 
65 
60 



So 



36 



80 
40 
60 
16 
29 
4° 
24 
12 
15 
27 

90 
75 
35 
84 
60 

150 
40 

100 
11 



Rate per Day. 



$3 00 to $4 00 



3 00 
to 
00 

to 



3 00 

3 00 
2 00 
2 50 
2 50 
2 00 
2 50 
2 00 
2 50 
2 50 
2 00 
2 00 
2 00 



1 50 to 2 00 
1 50 to 2 00 

I 50 tO 2 OO 



I 50 tO 2 50 

2 OO 

3 OO 

1 50 tO 2 OO 

2 OO tO 2 50 



1 50 tO 2 OO 

2 50 

2 50 tO 3 OO 

1 50 tO 2 OO 

2 OO tO 2 50 

I 50 

I 25 tO 2 OO 



50 tO 2 OO 



1 50 to 2 OO 



Rate per Week. 



$16 00 
15 00 
9 00 

10 00 
10 00 
12 00 
S 00 
8 00 
12 00 
8 00 
8 00 
8 00 
8 00 

7 00 

8 00 
8 00 
8 00 
8 00 



to $25 00 
to 18 OO 

tO 12 OO 

ro 00 



15 00 
12 00 



to 18 00 

to 

to 

to 

to 
to 
to 
to 

to 

10 

to 

to 
to 



10 00 

12 OO 

15 00 
10 00 

12 OO 

12 OO 

15 OO 

IO OO 

IO OO 

IO OO 

IO OO 

IO OO 



00 to 10 00 
00 to 10 00 
00 to 10 00 



8 00 to 15 05 

8 00 to 15 00 

,15 00 to 18 00 

8 00 to 12 00 

12 00 to 15 00 



8 00 to 12 00 

10 00 to 15 00 

15 00 to 18 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

10 00 to 15 00 

8 00 

8 00 to 12 00 



00 to 10 00 



8 00 to 



Time Open. 



All the Year. 



Summer Season. 



All the Year. 



Summer Season. 



All the Year. 
Summer Season. 



Spring and Summer. 
Summer Season. 

Summer Season. 

All the Year. 
Summer Season. 

All the Year. 
Summer Season. 



2 50 


to 


3 5o 


15 00 


to 


20 00 


Spring and Summer 


2 OO 


to 


2 50 


12 00 


to 


18 00 


" 


a 


50 




12 00 


to 


18 00 


All the Year. 


2 00 


to 


2 50 


10 00 


to 


15 00 


" 


2 


00 




10 00 


to 


15 00 


" 


2 


50 




12 00 


to 


18 00 


" 


2 


00 




8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


1 5o 


to 


2 OO 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


<< 


2 00 


to 


2 50 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


Summer Season. 


1 5o 


to 


2 OO 


10 00 


to 


12 OO 


All the Year. 


3 00 


to 


4 OO 


16 00 


to 


28 00 


« 


3 00 


to 


5 00 


18 00 


to 


30 00 


" 


3 


00 




15 00 


to 


20 00 


Spring and Summer. 


3 


00 




1 


S no 




Summer Season. 


3 


00, 




1 


8 00 




Spring and Summer. 


2 50 


to 


3 00 


16 00 


to 


18 00 


All the Year. 


2 


50 




10 00 


to 


15 00 


Summer Season. 


2 50 


to 


3 00 


10 00 


to 


18 00 


" 


2 


00 




10 00 




" 


1 5o 


to 


2 00 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


All the Year. 


1 50 


to 


2 00 


8 00 


to 


10 00 


" 


2 50 


to 


3 00 


10 00 


to 


18 00 


Spring and Summei . 



134 



Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 



Name of House. 



Strayline, . . 
St. Nicholas, 
St. John's^ . 
Sportsman's, 
Swarthmore, 
State Capital, 
Selby Villa, . 
Shannon, . . 
Sagoyewatha, 



Traymore, 
Tremont, 
Truitt, . , 
Tioga, . . 



United States, 
Upton, . . . 



Vermont, . 
Victoria, . 
Verona, 
Virginia, . 
Villa Cuvier, 



Waverly, . . 
Wellington, . 
Westminster, 
Wilton, . . . . 
Windsor, . . 
Wingfield, . 
Windermere, 
Wetherill, . 
White House, 
Wilmington, 
Warren, . . 
Wallingford, 
Wentworth, 
Winfred, . . 
Willow Haven 
Wenonah, 
Weimer, . . 



Sleeping 
Rooms. 



Rate per Day. 



Rates per Week. 



250 
14 

35 
60 
16 
15 



$1 50 to $2 00 

I 50 tO 2 OO 

1 50 tO 2 OO 

2 OO tO 2 50 

1 50 tO 2 OO 

2 OO tO 2 50 
I 50 tO 2 OO 
I 25 tO 2 OO 



17 


3 00 to 5 00 


48 


2 50 to 3 00 


10 


1 50 to 2 00 


12 


1 50 to 2 00 



3 00 to 3 50 

2 00 to 2 50 

2 00 to 2 50 

2 OO tO 2 50 

1 50 tO 2 OO 

2 OO 

2 OO 

3 °o 

2 OO tO 2 50 



2 50 



2 50 

3 °° 

2 50 

2 50 

3 00 



$8 00 to $10 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

10 00 to 12 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

10 00 to 12 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

18 00 to 25 00 

10 00 to 14 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

8 00 to 10 00 

18 00 to 21 00 

10 00 to 15 00 

12 00 to 18 00 

10 00 to 15 00 

8 00 to 12 00 

12 00 

12 00 



16 00 to 

10 00 to 

10 00 to 

IO 00 to 

18 00 to 

10 00 to 

IO 00 to 

10 00 to 

12 OO 

8 00 
8 00 
8 00 to 
8 00 to 
12 00 to 
8 00 to 
8 00 to 
8 00 to 



25 00 
15 00 
12 00 
15 OO 
20 00 
15 00 
18 OO 

18 00 



12 OO 
IO 00 
15 00 
10 00 
10 00 

IO OO 



Time Open. 



Summer Season. 



All the Year. 
Summer Season. 



All the Year. 



Spring and Summer. 
Summer Season. 



All the Year. 



Summer Season. 



All the Year. 

Summer Season. 

All the Year. 

Summer Season. 
Spring and Summer. 



T. M. GALBREATH,- ^Apothecary, 

Successor to H. C. BLAIR'S SONS. 




PACIFIC AVENUE, CORNER NEW YORK. 

BRANCH, PACIFIC AVENUE, CORNER NEW JERSEY. 




W. F. WAHL, 

DEALER IN 

FINE SHOES. 



'% Full assortmeDt of all the 
leading styles. 



Fine Custom Work to Order. Repairing Neatly Done. 

1613 ATLANTIC AVENUE, 



Opposite Surf Place. 



J 35 



Visit Atlantic City's 

LEADING SHOEMAKER 

For your Boots and Shoes. 

J- O. WASEX., 

Corner of Atlantic and Virginia Avenues. 




J. C. WAHL, 



Largest Assortment. 
Lowest Prices. 
Best Goods. 



Atlantic City, New Jersey. 



Visit Atlantic City's Most Popular 
Shoe Store for your 

pay Sewed Shoes, 



ESPECIALLY IN 



SLIPPERS AND 
CANVAS SHOES, i 




PARLEY S, 

1623 Atlantic Ave., 4 doors above Illinois, 

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 
136 



Reel's Drug anil Frescription Store. 



OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND RELIABLE. 



ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

Opposite United Statos Hotel. 



Every thipg fresh and of best quality. 

Our Motto, 
" Purity and Carefulness." 

Telephone to all Principal Hotels. 



SPECIALTIES : 

LIME JUICE AND GLYCERINE CREAM 

for Sunburn and Chapped Hands. 

QUININE AND GLYCERINE HAIR TONIC. 

AROMATIC MYRRH AND TEABERRY 

TOOTH WASH. 

MAGIC CORN CURE. 

Every Variety of Toilet Goods, 




CURRIE & SCHROEDER, 




<S)(S> 

STQYES, RANGES, AND FURNACES, 

TIN AND HEATER WORK IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. 

Plumbing, Stsam-Fitting, and Sanitary Drainage. 

1216 & 1218 Atlantic Ave., 

9 South Carolina Ave., 



io 



ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 
137 



--^PHILADELPHIA STORE. 



J. H. CRAWFORD, 

1107 Atlantic Ave., opp. Mansion House, 



Dry Goods, 



NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS, AND FANCY GOODS. 



PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST. 



1876. 1887. 

THOMPSON IRVIN'S 

Leading Dry Goods House 1 

OF ATLANTIC CITY, 

1619 & \G2\ ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

Extends a cordial invitation to all visiting Atlantic 
City to call and examine the large and well assorted 
stock of 

Dry Goods, Notions, Trimmings, Etc. •> 

at the lowest cash prices. > 

BRANCH OF N. W. COR. NINTH AND WASHINGTON AVF,- 

PHILADELPHIA. 

138 



Choice Sellctions. Correct Styles. 

One Price. 

DRY GOODS, 

f Wefy, ifqdefwe kiS § (fet^ 1 
H. S. SCULL & CO., 

1609 Atlantic Avenue. 

Ladies will please note that purchases made at our store are returnable if not 
satisfactory in quality or price. We furnish nearly everything likely to be 
wanted by the tourist. 

Seashore Jewelry. 



Every Variety of Jewelry for Seashore Wear, including Unique Shell 
Designs, Filigree, Etc., at 

[L M. Bolte'g, 912 Atlantic ijve., beloto United gtate^ [Intel. 

Also, Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, and Silverware. 
Careful attention to Repairing of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc. 

AUGUST F. STIEGLER, 

Merchant Tailor $ Importer, 

- W 

No. 1 3 10 Atlantic Avenue. 
139 



CHARLES A. IDLER, 



Art Paper Hangings 

1529 ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

Grand Depot Building, adjoining City Hall. 



7\ LARGE stock of the latest styles of Wall Paper at the lowest 
1 Philadelphia prices. None but first-class workmen em- 
ployed. Samples of my work may be seen in hundreds of the 
leading hotels, cottages, and boarding-houses of Atlantic City. 
Fine Window Shades, Plumbing and Gas Fitting, Painting 
in all its branches. Sole Agent for James Flinn & Co.'s Patent 
Paint. Also Contractor and Builder. Plans and Specifications 
furnished. 



FRAMBES, SOMERS & CO., 

DEALERS IN 

LUMBER, 



AND MANUFACTURERS OF 



Doors, Blinds, and Moldings. 

OFFICE: 

Cor. Arctic Ave. and Phila. and Atlantic City R. R. 

MILL: 

Missouri Avenue, above Baltic. 



140 



E. V. CORSON, 



DEALER IN 



SS© 



Lumber, Mill Work, 



•efa- 



-» -BRICK. ETC.*- 

Contractor and Builder. Plans and Estimates Furnished. 

23 1 5-1 7-1 9 Atlantic Ave. 

George W. Sherman's 

Building Depot 

is the place to go when you are in need of anything 
in the building line. 1 carry a large and assorted 
stock and employ a large force of skilled mechanics, 
and am prepared at all times, on the shortest possible 
notice, to erect the most costly mansion, or to do the 
smallest repairs. Store fixtures, stairs, window frames, 
and everything in the building line. 

PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FURNISHED. ESTIMATES CHEER- 
FULLY GIVEN FOR ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF BUILDINGS. 

GEORGE W. SHERMAN, 

Bear of Asttal House. Entrance from Atlantic Ave, 

POST OFFICE BOX 329. 
141 



C. A. DEVLAN. C L. MAXWELL- 

C. A. DEVLAN & CO., 

PLUMBING * GAS FITTING, 

1530 Atlantic Avenue, 

BETWEEN NEW YORK AND KENTUCKY AVENUES. 

SANITARY Pl_,UItIBIlVG, DRAINAGE, GAS AND 
STEAM FITTING. 

L. E. FREEMAN, 

PRACTICAL 

PLUMBER, STEAM AND GAS FITTER, 

Sanitary Plumbing and Drainage a Specialty, 

No. 1022 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 
O-IEO. W. HOLMES, 

MANUFACTURER OF AND DEALER IN 

STOVES, HEATERS w RANGES, HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS, 

Roofing, Spouting, etc. Plumbing, Sewerage and Gas Fitting. Pumps, 
Pipes, etc. Repairs for all Stoves. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 

No. 1834 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

B. L. STKVKNS, 

Stoves, Tinware, Housekeeping Articles, and Hardware, 

1604 ^tzl^zlsttic ^-vzehsttxie. 



^Metropolitan 5 and 10 Cent Store> 

E. PRAC, Proprietor. 

1810 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BELOW INDIANA. 

A full line of Housefurnishing Goods at reasonable prices. Tinware a specialty. 
Cutlery and Glassware, and agent for the world-renowned Putz Pulver, best polishing 
powder for all metals. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

Fish, Oysters, Terrapin, and Game 

OF ALL KINDS IN SEASON. 

USTO. 1922 ATLANTIC AVEKTJE. 
Orders delivered free of charge. 

142 



HARRY J. STEEN, 



Teas, Coffees, and Spices, 



1121 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



Steam Coffee Roasting on the premises. Teas, 
Coffees, and Fancy Groceries. 



HARRY J. STEEN, 1121 Atlantic Avenue, 



UNDER BARTLETT HALL. 



OLIVER H. GUTTRIDGE, 



Painter, 



Paper Hanger and Decorator, 



1003 and 1611 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



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Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glues, Brushes, 
in fact, everything in keeping with the decorator's art. 
Estimates given, and large or small contracts made. 



FRESCO PAINTING. STUCCO WORK. 

SPECIAL DESIGNS FURNISHED. 

143 



L. E. WILLS, 
Butter, Eggs, and Poultry a Specialty, 

GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, 

2STos. 31© sixid. ©21 ^^tlantlc -A-T7-e:rru.e. 

Telephone No. 43. Sole Agent for Filhol & Autheman's Imported Olive Oils. 

Established 11 years. 

SMITH CONOVER, 

DEALER IN 

FINE GROCERIES, Etc., 

N. W. COR. ATLANTIC AND VIRGINIA AVES. 
~&GROCERS,ss~ 

Corner Indiana and Atlantic Avenues. 

? Specialties: Swiss Cheese, Limberger Cheese, Holland Herring, Etc. ■ $ 

C. E. ADAMS, 
Dealer is Staple and! Fancy <Sroc@££@8 9 

Minnesota and Other Brands of Choice Flour, 

DISHES, GLASS AND STONE WARE. 

Corner Atlantic and South Carolina Avenues. 



RILEY & ADAMS, 



DEALERS IN 



Groceries, Provisions, Vegetables, 6^°-* 
ATLANTIC AND GEORGIA AVENUES, 



ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 



C. E. Ulmer, D.D.S. 

(SURGEON DENTIST), 
Gas prepared fresh daily. Night calls attended to. 

OFFICE, 1112 ATLANTIC AVE. (Next to MANSION HOUSE). 

144 



Telephone No. 56, Established 1878. P. 0. Box 81. 



LEWIS CROFF & CO. 

(Successors to DELP & GROFF), 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 

BIsup, Feed, Spain, 

HAY AND STRAW, 
No. nig ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

Under Bartlett Hall. 

SMITH'S ATLANTIC BAKERY, 

Corner Atlantic and Ohio Avenues. 

BROWN AND VIENNA BREAD A SPECIALTY. 

Fresh Bread, Rolls, and Buns, and all kinds of Cakes and Pies. 



SOLE AGENT FOR WARREN'S ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUR. 

J. B. ALCORN, 

UNITED STATES BAKERY, 

1825 .A.TIEj.A.IN-Tia ATE. 

(Between Indiana and Ohio Avenues). 

HENRY WRIGHT, 

Dealer in Pure Country Milk, 

Virginia Avenue, first door above Arctic. 

Milk Pure and Fresh every day. Delivered to any part of the City every morn- 
ing and evening. Special attention given to regular customers. 

145 



Jfrgerf Union Jtfarl^et, 

1513 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



The leading house for the sale of all kinds of 
Meats and Country Produce. 



Chicago temderlom a ^p euhltY 

The only slaughtering establishment on the 
island. 



FRESH and SALT MEATS, Etc. 

Truck fresh from farms daily. 

kessh,e:e3*s 

ATLANTIC MARKET, 

No. 1913 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

A GOOD SUPPLY OF ALL KINDS OF 

Meats, Provisions, and Vegetables 

Constantly on Hand. Goods Delivered Free of Charge. 



Orders Delivered Free. Open all the Year. 

STRQUD'S 

SOUTHWESTERN 

Meat and Produce Market, 

A CHOICE STOCK OF 

BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, CANNED GOODS, FISH, and OYSTERS. 
2215, 2217, and 2219 Atlantic Ave., 

Between Mississippi and Missouri Avenues. 
P. O. Box 804. Telephone 104. 

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WILSON'S ART STORE 

1616 Atlantic Avenue. 

If Yoil are looking for something new and novel to take home with you 
as a souvenir of the Seashore, this is the place. You will also find beautiful 
shells, Sea Mosses, Finely Painted Shells, panels, etc. French 
Tissue Paper for Paper Flowers, Artists' Materials, Pearl 

Goods, and a general variety to please all. A branch store on the Beach, 
nearly opposite Howard's Pier, has been opened. 

WILSON'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY, 

Largest and Best in the City. 

Books by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. 

J, HENRY VVOLSIEFFER, 

Stationery, Fancy Goods, Novelties, Art Goods, 

Music and Musical Instruments, 

ci^CTTXj^.Tiiisra- library;, 

1210 Atlantic Avenue, - next to Post Office. 



HENRY AFFLBRBACH, 

— DEALER IN — 

Toys, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Us, etc. 

1620 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



STATIONERY, BOOKS, AND TOYS. 

All the latest styles of Ladies' Fine Stationery, etc. Latest and 

Popular Novels, Current Magazines, and Reading matter of 

all kinds. Imported and Domestic Toys and Novelties of every description. 

BJkSLETrS, 

No. 1118 Atlantic Avenue. Oldest Circulating Library in town. 

R. C. GRISCOM & CO., 

KEYSTONE MARKET, 

Corner Indiana and Atlantic Avenues. 

Choice Meats and Produce. 

A specialty of supplying Hotels with Potatoes in large quantities. 

ELDRIDCE & BURKHARD, 

First-class MEATS and VEGETABLES of all kinds, 

COR. ATLANTIC AND MARVUND AVENUES. 

147 



GEO. B. BORTON, Att'y, 

DEALER IN 

Pure Lehigh Coal, 

All sizes. Prepared expressly for family and hotel purposes. 2240 pounds to 

the ton. Our coal is kept under cover and carefully screened. 

Also manufacturer of and dealer in Building Brick. 

Yard and Office— INDIANA and BALTIC AVENUES. 

Residence — 114 South Michigan Ave. Telephone No. 9. Connections with all parts of the city. 



BUY YOUR ICE AND COAL FROM THE 

KNICKERBOCKER ICE COMPANY, 

And secure the best quality at the Lowest Prices. 
Office, ATLANTIC AVENUE, opposite Post-Office. 

TIETVJEITS 

'DTTTST? PfJlWT^TTFCf manufactured daily 

rUliiJL UAillJlJjLJd ON THE PREMISES, 

No. 1014 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

Marshmallows and Old-fashioned Cream Candy specialties. 

JOHIT :mi. tatlob, 

DEALER IN 

Imported # Domestic Cigars, 

All grades of Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Stationery, etc., and anything that 
is kept in a First-class Cigar Store. 

No. 1220 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

ct.a_:m::es id a. Xj :kj it 7 

Manufacturer of the Celebrated 

Thunderbolt^ Two Cities and Panetella Five-Cent Cigars^ 

made expressly for consumers. Also dealer in Fine Tobaccos, Snuff, and 
Pipes. Open all the year. 

NO. 1708 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 
SHANER & KNAUEB. 

STEAM POWER BOOK anil JOE PRINTERS. 

1131 A.rTTjJ^mTTC! A_"VElSrXJE_ 

148 



ADAM KNAUF, 



MANUFACTURER OF 



IRON AWNING FRAMES, 



FENCING, GENERAL BLACKSMITHING, 
AND MACHINE WORK, 

j^tii? jfoe., bet. Jpehigan * ^an$a| j^ue; 

BOX 1079. 



E. & R. QUINN, 

IMPORTERS OF 

HUMAN HAIR GOODS, 

103 SOUTH THIRTEENTH ST., PHILADELPHIA. 
Branch Store, 1006 Atlantic Ave., ATLANTIC CITY. 

A full line of the latest styles in Bangs, 
Ventilated Front Pieces, Braids, and the 
New Parisian Coift'ure for the back 
hair. 
Our celebrated EAU DE QUININE HAIR RE- 
STORER we guarantee to prevent Baldness. 

E. & R. QUINN, 

1006 Atlantic Avenue, ATLANTIC CITY. 
103 S. Thirteenth St., PHILADELPHIA. 




^7^7^0^27667^ Telephone no. 

A. W* BOWBM, 



AGENT FOR 



®Shoemakertown * Steam * Laundry.® 

821 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

All Goods called for and delivered free. 

149 



I. G. Adams. C. J. Adams. 

ISRAEL G. ADAMS & CO., 
Real Estate and Insurance Agents, 

2031 Atlantic Avenue, below Michigan. 

Agents for CHELSEA BEACH COMPANY. 

Telephone No. 71. Lock Box 53. 



STERNBERGER BROTHERS, 

REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENTS, 

1312 Atlantic Avenue, opp. City Hall. 

Hotels, Cottages, Boarding-Houses, Lots, and Stores for Sale, Rent, or Exchange. 



NOTARY PUBLIC, 

Real Estate and Insurance Broker, 

Ashland House Block, 1021 Atlantic Ave. 

Hotels, Cottages, Boarding-Houses, Lots, and Stores for Sale, Rent, or Exchange. Insurance 
effected in Reliable Companies. Mortgages Negotiated at Moderate Rates. 



^7^7•ooI^-B-c^:R,:£T1 , Ln^E. 
EX>"V^I3ST A. SMITH Sc SON, 

Arctic, between Nortn and South Carolina. 

Dealers in FIRST QUALITY WOOD-BURNT LIME. Plaster, Hair. Brick, Fire Clay, 
Fire Brick, IMPORTED PORTLAND CEMENT and FIRST QUALITY ROSENDALE 
CEMENT (New York Cement Co.'s brand), also, 

READY-MIXED MORTAR, 
Made from PURE LUMP LIME. No fallen or fine lime used. 

BRANCH OF FRONT AND WILLOW STS., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Established 1:22. Telephone No. 82. 



MRS. WM. DOERSCHNER, 

. II OLDEST II 

Steam Dyeing and Scouring Establishment, 

No* 933 Atlantic Avenue. 

Altering and Repairing, Specialties. 

Mrs. A. C. MINFORD, - FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER, 

has removed to 1318 Atlantic Avenue, over Duffee's Hair Emporium, where she will con" 
tinue to make a specialty of Perfect Fitting, Stylish Draping, and neat, substantial work. Al l 
the latest designs of the Season. Cutting by measurement. 

1318 Atlantic Avenue, bet. S. Carolina and Tennessee. P. O. Box 375. 

150 



TjJ^W offices of 

J4M1S s. mi^om, 

BANK BUILDING, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 
Master in Chancery. Notary Public. Admiralty Proctor. 



H. L. Slape. A. Stephany. 

COUNSELORS x AT x LAW, 

ATLANTIC AYENUE, OPP. BANK BUILDING. 

Masters in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioners, and Notaries Public. 
Jos. Thompson. A. B. Endicott. 

COUNSELORS * AT * LAW, 

No. 122 ATLANTIC AYENUE. 

•abcvbIt ©. febbt, 
COUNSELOR x AT x LAW, 

Office, 1803 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

Master and Examiner in Chancery. Practices in the United States District and Circuit Courts. 

g. D, BQFFBffAZV, 

ATTORNEY x AT x LAW, 

Office, CHAMPION HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 

Master and Solicitor in Chancery and Notary Public. 



GEORGE T. IHESiM, 

COUNSELOR AT LAW, C0 SSZll 0R 

CITY ECA-LI..- 

mAmRTF HcGAHN, 
HOUSE, SIGN, AND DECORATIVE PAINTER, 

P.O.Box,746. ARKANSAS AVENUE, ABOVE ATLANTIC. 

Painters' Supplies. Agent for Franklin Ready-Mixed Paints and Angola Paint Work». 

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SELECTIONS FROM THE POETS. 

Home is the resort 
Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where, 
Supporting and supported, polished friends 
And dear relations mingle unto bliss— 

thrice happy, because the handsome furniture and carpets were purchased of Bell & 
Son, whose stock far surpasses in extent and variety anything of the kind ever before 
offered in Atlantic City. 

Then you said that I'd be happy, 

But no happiness I see 
When you took me from my parents 
To the cottage by the sea — 
a cottage where love and comfort could not abide, because the furniture and carpets 
were not purchased at Bell's. 

There is no place like home- 
especially a home at the seashore, furnished by Bell. 



Fireside happiness to hours of ease, 
Blest with that charm, the certainty to please- 
if the carpets and furniture came from Bell's. 



At night we'll feast together, 
Most welcome home ! 
and thank Bell & Son for making our surroundings so pleasant. 

Night is the time for rest ; 

How sweet, when labors close, 
To gather round an aching breast 

The curtain of repose, 
Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head 
Down on our own delightfulbed — 
a bed which is not more delightful than hundreds of others sold by Bell. 

I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled 
Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, 

And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, 
A heart that was humble might hope for it here " — 
surrounded by rich draperies, purchased at Bell's. 

At night returning, every labor sped, 

He sits him down, the monarch of a shed ; 

Smiles by his cheerful lire, and round survevs 

His children's looks that brighten at the bla'ze— 
then looks himself in admiration on the handsome silk and velvet plush parlor furni- 
ture which came from Bell's. 



For a man's house is his castle — 
and reposing in his bed, purchased of Bell & Son, he enjoys a sleep "full of sweet 
dreams and health and quiet breathing." 

Now stir the fire, and close the shutter fast ; 

Let fall the curtain, wheel the sofa round— 
the curtain and sofa which we purchased of Bell & Son the very day we moved into 
our cottage. 

All's well that ends well- 
Hence we close by calling the reader's attention to the new plan, inaugurated by E. S. 
Bell & Son, of furnishing entire outfits for cottages and boarding-houses by contract. 
Those who have been benefited by this plan will cheerfully acknowledge its conven- 
ience. Bell & Son have more than doubled their stock for the spring and summer season 
of 1887, and they now have on hand more 

CARPETS AND FURNITURE 

than any one store has ever shown. They are not undersold by any Philadelphia 
house, arid their supply is equally as large. If you have not time to call, send a postal to 

JSS. S»- BEIjIj cfe SOKT, 
1303 <5c 1324 ALTANTIC AVENUE. 

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SHOWING ROUTES TO 

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